How to develop professionally important soft-skills for IT-professionals by means of physical education?

Abstract

Information on features necessary for productive professional work is interesting for both scientists and employers. Single systematized contradictory data don't allow to improve training programs, make effective training programs for IT-specialists for productive professional work. Goal -identify critical important, important and desirable professional qualities for IT-specialists, according to the data of literature determine the most important means of their effective development. Methods, participants, and organization. The study participants were 142 students who study at the university in the 3rd year and have experience in the specialty "information technology" for at least 2 years. Students evaluated soft-skills (on a 4-point system) by the degree of importance for the successful work of IT-professionals. The results were calculated in%, and the reliability of the discrepancies between neighbouring groups of indicators was determined using the χ2 criterion. Results. It has been determined that emotional intelligence is a crucial quality for IT professionals, as well as leading and desired skills. Whereas the leading skills are studying ability and strive for selfeducation and self-improvement; independent decision making and problem solving; establishing communication and team-working; creativity, attention to details, and adaptiveness. An adequate level of physical conditions and leadership are regarded as desirable. The level of importance of psychophysical parameters for IT professional's work efficiency has been determined. It has been determined, that means of physical activities as mental fitness (hatha yoga, Bodyflex and Pilates), sports games (and other measures for promote agility) have worked well in the development of cognitive qualities of students. To form professionally important skills, IT-specialists have been recommended to use aids to promote agility and mental fitness, to reinforce the workload on physical education sessions, increase the number of academic classes on physical education up to 3 per week, or supplement academic activities with sports. In professional literature, there has been found no datum on the type of motor activity that encourages forming a number of leading professionally important qualities.

The Influence of Agility Indicators on Formation of Vocational Readiness in Law Enforcement Officers

“…It was determined that concentration, stability, span and switching attention are related to agility (see Table 6). Our results coincide with our previous data on positive influence of agility development tools towards attention indicators in students of the Institute of Information Technologies (Andres, 2019(Andres, , 2021. Our data confirm the data of specialists (Pichurin, 2015), who proved the fact of improvement in selectivity, concentration and stability of attention with increasing of general level of physical fitness of students and, especially, coordination abilities.…”

“…Analysis of special literature showed that psychophysical training contributes to solving the tasks of preparation for work. The expediency of increasing level of development of psychophysical preparation in studentsrepresentatives of relatively peaceful professions: IT specialists, railway workers, economists, designers (Andres, 2019;Andres, 2021;Chernovsky & Kolumbet, 2016;Kozina et al, 2014;Ostapenko, 2014;Pichurin, 2015) has been proven. At the same time, it has been proven that training programs, using agility development tools are particularly effective for the formation of a number of professionally important competencies (Kozina et al, 2014;Lisowski & Mihuta, 2013;Ostapenko, 2014;Pichurin, 2015;Rolyuk, 2015;Shalupin et al, 2022).…”

Physical activities traditional games and javanese culture of particularly Wayang Kulit

“…Physical abilities can assist students in showing their quality skills [27]. If traditional games can be taught as a physical activity exercise in physical education [28], children will be able to develop good physical abilities that will help them improve in terms of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development [29] Discipline, cooperation, responsibility, honesty, hard work, and educational values are all taught through traditional games [31]. Traditional games educate educational and moral values while also building a spirit of nationalism [33].…”

Fatores Que Influenciam O Desenvolvimento Auto Percebido Das Habilidades Do Futuro Em Profissionais De Ti

“…Diversos estudos realizados por essas e outras referências, como apontado por Vial (2019), mostram que a tecnologia é apenas uma peça no meio de um emaranhado de fatores que provocam essa transformação em todos ambientes de convivência na sociedade. Por este motivo, emergem investigações sobre o efeito comportamental dos profissionais sobre esse fenômeno e sobre como essas características -também chamadas de soft skills (Andres, 2021) -são necessárias para a adaptação neste universo sob novas perspectivas.…”

“…Essas habilidades "soft" não são mais encaradas como diferenciais ou itens alheios à rotina de trabalho, mas "sim como uma parte significativa do papel do trabalho" (Sulea 2018, p. 56) devido à alta complexidade desse novo ambiente profissional que se desenha, permeado fortemente por demandas de relações interpessoais. Essa necessidade, segundo Sulea (2018) existe tanto para profissões mais estáveis diante a as previsões para o futuro do trabalho (como os profissionais de Tecnologia da Informação em geral) quanto àquelas consideradas redundantes, e definem fatores de competitividade a nível individual e organizacional (Andres, 2021;Sulea, 2018).…”