On the Formation of “Soft Skills” as the Equivalent of Professional Competencies: A Forecast of Educational Trends

The authors of the article study soft skills formation in framework professional competencies. aim is to formulate characteristic, its components, as well analyze methods and techniques training development prospects conditions world’s globalization, technical progress, economic political changes. For this purpose, one used following methods: analysis existing scientific publications on topic “soft skills” educational space their correlation with competences. comparative method was Ukrainian education European practices. In individual inductive used. results have led understanding prospect a fundamental requirement modern labor market. are universal needs today’s education.