Тверді Та Мякі Навички, Які Формують Професійну Компетентність Фахівця З Міжнародних Відносин

Abstract

The article presents an attempt to investigate a particular aspect of professional training of specialists in international relations, which is the development of a complex of skills necessary for future employment and successful professional activity in the chosen field of interest. The rapid development of informational societal tendencies encourages the need of a new generation of specialists whose qualification satisfies the requirements of progressive labour market. This, in turn, provokes the pursuit of innovative changes and decisions on the way to train these specialists in terms of higher education standards. Generally speaking, professional training is now experiencing the fundamental shift in selection of approaches to the formation of instructional programs, definition of its aims and objectives, choice of teaching methods and, of course, interpretation of skills of future specialists. The given paper relies on theoretical methods of scientific researches using efficient methodological framework. The research is conducted from the perspective of frequently used division of skills into hard and soft, which reflects the modern tendencies of viewing the issue under study. In the course of the study, the conducted analysis of the chosen reference base gives a possibility to outline major hard and soft skills of international relations specialists as well as the methods of instruction, which help to develop these skills in the learning process of higher education establishments. The findings of this study reveals that modern labor market shows high requirements for future employees and welldeveloped combination of hard and soft skills help to keep abreast with modern tendencies of labour market. The study also suggests that higher education institutions should draw more attention to the development of soft skills as they make future specialist more flexible in professional activity and to go out of the limits of a particular profession.