HARD SKILLS AND SOFT SKILLS: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE FOR ENGINEER?
The modern way of life brings changes concerning different aspects of people’s life. In connection with the emergence of new knowledge and technologies in recent years, employers have increasingly focused on the presence of so-called hard skills и soft skills among university graduates. At the same time, the question of the priority of these competencies remains open, since the employer in a particular field of activity may prioritize the need to possess so-called «hard» skills than «soft», and vice versa. The authors of the article conducted a sociological research among students of technical universities to identify the degree of their possession of hard and soft skills. For this, a questionnaire was compiled using the Google form and posted on social networks. The sample of respondents was about 100 people. As a result of the analysis of the study, the direction was determined among students in the development of their «hard» skills and «soft» skills. The article presents the results of the study. The authors offer several methods that, in their opinion, will contribute to the development of soft skills in the student’s technical direction preparation.