SOFT SKILLS AND THEIR ROLE IN TRAINING MODERN

Abstract

The problem of developing the structure and content of soft skills, as well as their formation, has been widely discussed by scientists in the last decade. The need to actively develop soft skills in the process of professional training is becoming more and more urgent. In the article, the authors describe soft skills as strategic competencies of the 21st century. Soft skills are necessary in any type of activity, so it is so important to start forming them already at the stage of training in general education schools and continue to actively form them in university educational practice. In the process of professional training, the most effective development of soft skills can be achieved by means of innovative technologies, and specifically Internet technologies, interactive technologies that have proven themselves positively in the world educational practice and in Russian universities. The authors emphasize the need to form soft skills in students of various specialties, as an indicator of the presence of an active, creative position in relation to their own lives and the formed motivation to develop effective strategies of behavior in future professional activities.