No 4 (50) (2020)

Rise of artificial neural networks, machine learning, neurointerfaces and other AI related technologies leads to prolific changes in all walks of urban life. These changes have a strong effect on labor market, more precisely – on the nature of professional activity: new skills, and consequently new competences are required from personnel. A vivid example of modern equipment capabilities is demonstrated by Moscow plants involved in digitalization of their production facilities. On the other hand, many consider robotic technologies a source of risks for the labor market. So it is imperative to take account of both positive and potentially negative factors in the course of digital economy proliferation when designing policies for personnel training. Timely upgrading of higher education programs is imperative for maintaining our competitive edge in the world economy. Educational strategies must be fashioned with all due regard for the most sought-after technologies. Systematic monitoring is essential to HR support for identifying key priority areas of training future personnel.

Based on cutting edge cross-cutting technologies digital economy is booming in Moscow. New business and consuming models emerge, which in their turn affect internal and external markets, along with employers’ requirements to the employees’ skills. Personnel training in tune with modern conditions dictated by digitalization transformation are the controlling factor of economic progress today. Relevant to Russia’s labor market becomes the competences set that, apart from universal competences, includes digital skills and abilities which have proved their sustainability in the times of coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Yet normative framework in charge of employer-employee relationship under remote working conditions calls for enhancement. Proper management tools along with new remote worksite organization will help boost the capital’s digital economy.

The analysis of the current level of economy of the Czech Republic indicates the good prospects for economic and investment bonds with Russia. The areas for the partnership between the parties are scientific and innovation projects, exchanging the newest technologies. Czech partners are particularly interested in development of small and medium businesses in Moscow. The education of managerial personnel is of big importance for the Russian capital and for Russia on the whole, including the bachelor’s degree program of the Moscow Metropolitan Governance Yury Luzhkov University and the Prague University of Economics and Business.

In the light of the change in the labor market an employee is oftentimes in need of substantive aid by an HR specialist or by a career consultant, in order to objectively access own interests, abilities and talent. The results of HR specialist-assisted work make the basis of the employee’s career development, help to give a boost to his or her most effective performance in the organization. Strong potential for analysis of a person’s professional qualities and expectations lies in the coaching array of tools. These help to open up a person’s strength areas, assist in shaping the individual personality and professional development track.

Since 2019 Moscow Government Department of PA and Personnel has been running the project of setting up and developing services in the city’s urban management system. The most sought-after services are those of searching and screening of applicants, effectively realized by the Moscow Government Staff Recruitment Center. The key elements of the Center’s practices are harmonization of the applicants’ assortment methodologies, drawing on job profiles and modern screening methods. An important role in staff recruitment procedures has been played their switching to the digital format. In particular, online interviews and testing save considerable amount of time for both recruiter and aspirant in the absence of any quality loss. The recruitment Center’s clients are heads of Moscow executive power bodies and their subordinated authorities. The Center performs as an internal recruiting agency while running targeted and mass assortment, and also helps recruit staff from square one.

With the current active digitalization of all walks of life, changing working contents, methods and technics, those specialists who strive for maintaining high levels of competence are bound to turn to professional development courses, as well as to learn on their own. The idea of lifelong learning has become the pivotal motif of our times against the background of digitalization. But modern technologies make it possible to organize professional development process for personnel in a fresh new way. Professional development has witnessed an active proliferation of a notion of interaction with students through online platforms. One of the most attractive technologies today is a digital platform that allows put together individual training programs.

In the course of a few decades changes were in train in our country’s economy as a result of the change of the political system and business pattern. Changes are still in progress, but amid the factors of restructuring the economic domain digitalization is coming to the fore. Substantial headway is noticeable in labor market, a number of which are witness to the lowering of workers’ social security. The stature of social institutions responsible for regulation of the labor market – the trade unions has notably changed in the last decades. People lack the notion of trade unions functions today, while they become a dramatic force that determines the relationship between the workers, the employers and the state. Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Independent Trade Unions Federation N. N. Kuzmina gave an account of priorities, tasks and activities of the trade unions’ movement and the effects of tripartisanship system on the labor market. In her interview to the Herald she characterized the phenomenon of “precariat”, outlined the Federations plans to reduce its impact on society, as well as offered her outlook for the future of the trade union movement in Russia.