ASSESSMENT OF THE SKILLS LEVEL OF THE XXI CENTURY, POSSESSED BY YOUTH

In the article there has been studied the level of skills, possessed by youth, and needed in the XXI century. Assessment of the skills level of the XXI century, possessed by youth, has been conducted with the help of methodology, developed by the author of the article, based on the cluster analysis of different scientific sources, which highlighted topics of skills of XXI century. Based on the analysis there have been differentiated four major clusters, which include a certain set of skills each (educational skills (critical thinking, creativity, self-education), literacy skills (media literacy, digital literacy), social skills (teamwork, communication, emotional intelligence), personal skills (flexibility, productivity, proactiveness)), as well as there has been developed a tool set for conducting surveys among youth and employers on presence and level of skills of the XXI century during work, studying and conducting everyday activities. The survey conducted has enabled us to find out that the most needed in the XXI century skills, as per the opinion of youth, are self-development, creativity and teamwork. Same skills, as per youth, are the best developed in them and the most needed in the XXI century. For assessment of skills level, in the methodology there have been identified certain sets of actions, which correspond to each group of skills, and based on which the level of each skill in a certain group has been calculated firstly as per a three-grade scale, and then as per a four-grade scale — an integral rating of each of four skill groups. These calculations have proven that the social skills are the best developed in youth and personal skills are less developed. Among social skills teamwork and communication are the most developed, and among personal skills — productivity and flexibility. At the same time, there is a need to develop emotional intelligence and productivity as well as digital and media literacy.