COMPETENCE PROFILE OF A TECHNICAL CREATIVITY SPECIALIST: A SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The article proves that in the 21st century, a new paradigm of socio-cultural and professional knowledge, norms, and competencies is emerging, designed to ensure the competitiveness and success of specialists, including those in technical creativity. The socio-philosophical analysis allows us to consider such a specialist not merely as a bearer of specialized knowledge, but as a subject of social action, capable of understanding the ethical dimension of technological processes. The main characteristics of creativity are determined: creativity, flexibility, openness to new things, imagination, fantasy, courage, etc., which are formed not only through theoretical training, but also in the process of activity, the ability to creatively apply professional knowledge and skills to solve non-standard situations. To form the creative abilities of a specialist, including a specialist in technical creativity, it is necessary to master a set of competencies, as well as an appropriate level of communication with members of the professional community. In contrast to special professional skills that are acquired in higher education institutions and are strictly linked to a particular profession («hard skills»), two other groups of skills – «soft skills» and «meta-skills» – are of great importance in the competence system of a modern professional. It is justified that a specialist in the field of technical creativity must possess a certain set of knowledge and skills necessary for effective activity, which are commonly referred to as competencies. The most important competencies are hard skills, soft skills, and meta skills, which enable the ability to analyze, model, predict the consequences and prospects of creative activity, use information, etc. It has been reasonably concluded that a specialist's competency profile ensures their future competitiveness and the compliance of their professional qualities with the requirements of the labor market. To achieve success, one must have a professional education, possess fundamental knowledge, be able to apply this knowledge in practical activities, and have a developed professional consciousness and self-awareness. A further line of research into technical creativity may consist in developing an educational model for training technical creativity specialists capable of combining innovative technical thinking with ethical, social, and humanistic competencies.