Social Competence and Professional Performance in the Technical Field
Social Competence and Professional Performance in the Technical Field

Summary/Abstract: Changes of the contemporary global society call from its citizens’ complex skills to meet the challenges of the economic, political or social transformation. Social competence and civic competence arise as a goal of the global society, because they incorporate the skills of the individual, which enable self-management, as well as skills of optimal coordination with the community space where the individual belongs. This paper summarizes the idea that professional training is not the only advantage that the individual must have for success. They also need a high level of emotionality, of social adaptive ability and competence of civic involvement. It is proved by research findings in the field that job performance is facilitated by the development of social competence in future professionals. The paper also proposes the integration of structured personal development internships for students in the technical field in general, but, very importantly, for students who will be the future teachers in the technical field.

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