Soft skills as one of the components of the professional competence of a modern designer

Abstract

This article provides a soft skills detailed analysis. This group of skills, and the paper will prove that, represents one of the modern designer’s professional skills main components. The «soft skills» concept essence and structural components are revealed. The following categories of soft skills were studied: key emotional qualities of a person, skills of managing their own emotions, skills of interaction with the outside world and in society, as well as skills formed by individual characteristics of human thinking. The non-technical skills importance in the designer study is determined, their formation process is also studied. Next, the content of «soft skills», required for the formation of undergraduate students, who master the direction of training 54.03.01 «Design», is determined. In this article, in addition, the competencies provided for by the Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Education, which are directly related to the process of forming such skills in students of the «Design» direction are examined. Within the framework of this article, the analysis of the modern, dynamically developing system of the higher education is carried out. On its basis, the necessity of introducing such structural and organizational elements into the training process of future bachelors, which will most likely contribute to the soft skills formation is proved. The role of the higher school teacher in the process of the designer’s soft skills forming is also defined. The soft skills of the future design bachelor are considered by the author not only as a set of knowledge, skills and abilities, but also the sum of personal qualities based on tolerant, humanistic, ethical principles. According to the author, the human personality of the future designer finds the most complete expression at the level of professional and social culture. The article proves the necessity of applying a system-value approach in the process of preparing bachelor’s degrees in design. In turn, one of the most significant components of this approach is soft skills.