The study identifies soft skills as the most strongly stated need for quality career development in the maritime domain of the Republic of Bulgaria. This leads to our attempt to bring out the specific elements that are shaping these skills, visually represented in a Conceptual Model of Professional Maritime Soft Skills. This model describes the specific “DELTA talents”, which are shaping the necessary soft skills, in order to expand the way for achieving an effective workforce creation in the maritime domain. The article presents the empirical results of 50 online surveys with specifically targeted organizations in the maritime sector of the Republic of Bulgaria. Based on the obtained results, twelve main soft skills were synthesized in four categories and in addition six core DELTA talents were identified as specific ingredients that are shaping the soft skills and the connections between them. The proposed model is applicable for soft skills educational and training development of the maritime human resources.
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Karadencheva et al. (2024) studied this question.