The importance of soft skills has not only grown significantly during the Pandemic but has also revealed new challenges for telecommuting and hybrid work. Current trends show that employers prefer those who are disciplined, responsible, and have self-management skills. Representatives of international IT companies and European universities have discussed it at the Erasmus + SoftAware project conference “Creating IT talents in software engineering” held in Kaunas Science and Technology Park on 15.10.2021.