The role of creative abilities of future socio-cultural sphere specialists in the formation of professional skills

The study presents the authors’ opinion about the importance of professional skills formation through creative abilities, which are realized in the process of training future specialists of socio-cultural sphere (SCS). The clarification of the basic concepts allowed us to delve deeper into the research problem and to identify the interrelation of SCS categories within the creative space. The professional skills of future SCS specialists are characterized and a set of characteristics of a modern SCS specialist is proposed, which can become the basis for the development of universal requirements for the job responsibilities of such a specialist. The authors paid special attention to the experimental work and generalization of the obtained research results. The survey conducted among the students of 1–5 courses of training directions 51.03.02 Folk Art Culture, 51.03.03 Social and Cultural Activity allowed to determine the role of creative abilities in their future professional activity and to confirm the importance of professional skills in the structure of creative abilities of a modern SCS specialist.