Abstract: Career core competence refers to the students in the future work, in addition to the professional skills of a job. In recent years, in order to improve the employment competitiveness of students and adapt to the needs of enterprises in the future, higher vocational colleges in our country pay more and more attention to the cultivation of students’vocational core competence. And it is the core demand of training the core vocational ability to carry on the labor education to the higher vocational students. In order to further strengthen the labor education in higher vocational colleges, this paper analyzes the common problems of vocational core competence of students in higher vocational colleges and the advantages of labor education in the cultivation of vocational core competence, the paper puts forward the path of labor education from the perspective of the cultivation of vocational core competence.

Key words: Higher vocational colleges, Vocational core competence training, Labor education