HIGH CLASS STUDENTS SOFT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIESAnnotation. The article discusses the possibilities of developing and improving soft skills in career guidance -this is an actively developing system of awakening the interest of high school students in studying the «Atlas of Professions». The relevance of this problem is dictated by the need to develop life skills -a set of behavioral skills that provide the ability to be socially adequate in behavior that allows students to interact productively with others and successfully cope with the demands and changes of everyday life. The purpose of the article is to consider the tools and opportunities for improving soft skills and remove barriers that prevent a modern school from coping with the task of vocational guidance for students. The foreign experience in the implementation of vocational guidance for schoolchildren is analyzed and its connection with their social success is shown.The article is based on the assumption that the most important competence is the ability to solve complex problems, think critically, and act creatively. As in many other cases, students need to be able to work in a team, make decisions, persuade, communicate, manage their time, and motivate themselves and others.Recent studies show that interest in soft skills is constantly growing. Soft skills are necessary in terms of social skills that determine the stages of personality development. Soft skills, or flexible skills, are a set of skills that are responsible for successful participation in the educational process, their high efficiency and effectiveness, to evaluate the effectiveness of training and understand how well it is possible to use new knowledge with the use of technology in the classroom.