Keyword: «soft skills development»

The relevance of this research is due to the fact that, despite the active discussion of the students’ soft skills development problem in domestic and foreign literature, the level of their development is very low. Modern graduates quickly lose their value on labor market, because a certain set of skills (hard skills) acquired during the years of education becomes out of date and soft skills are underdeveloped and, as a result, they become incompetent on the modern labor market. The term «soft skills» is one of the hits of the dynamically changing world. The purpose of the article is to study the main determinants of the students’ soft skills development. The article presents a content analysis of the «soft skills» concept that ensures the integrity of the term perception and its content, and its possible use in the communication sphere. Today, in the world of «clip-making opportunities» and integration in the system of psychological and pedagogical assessments of the individual abilities, «soft» skills are divided into four groups: basic communication skills or communicative literacy, self-management skills, effective thinking or intellectual thinking skills, management skills or foresight management. The soft-skills development is considered to be a constructive cooperation in the communication sphere, in which the so called co-existent identification of the internal potential appears. Co-knowledge, co-experience and co-creation represent a three-sided model of such cooperative form of interaction. The article describes these forms, the key rules of the selected determinants, the technology of making an individual development plan in the communication sphere (the program of goals, steps and activities needed for this), the main methods of the soft skills development. The development of soft skills is a personal motive of every person and it depends only on him to what extent his personal qualities would help him to make a successful professional career, to determine his efficiency in the professional competitive environment. Studies of this kind contribute to the development of new educational approaches aimed at the students’ soft skills development at any level of education. In addition, they make it possible to comprehend the possibility of applying the described theoretical issues to practice.