Staff Gap: Amounts and Factors of It-Specialists Deficit in Russia
https://doi.org/10.21686/2413-2829-2023-4-171-180
Abstract
The article focuses on the idea that speeding-up of digitalization, growth in virtual dominant and technological burden of production processes require a sufficient number and quality of highly-qualified IT-professionals with an adequate set of knowledge, competences and relevant experience meeting challenges of the new model of development. It is clear that in spite of popularity of IT-specialists and high demand for IT-education today’s Russia faces a serious shortage of IT-specialists of different level of training. The scale of staff deficit in Russian IT-sectors was estimated on the basis of reports by national and overseas analytical agencies. The method of content-analysis helped identify a set of factors with cumulative effect that piled up in previous years: inability of Russian academic education institutions training IT-specialists to meet the requirements of digital sectors; speeding processes of virtualization in pandemic period in Russia that worsened IT-staff balance; outflow and relocation of IT-specialists in conditions of changing geo-political situation and so on. A conclusion was drawn that staff gap in national digital sectors is a medium-term trend, which demands introduction of effective measures that will be able to cover the needs of digital economy in IT-specialists in the period 2023-2030.
About the Author
M. Yu. Varavva
Orenburg branch of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Margarita Yu. Varavva - PhD, Assistant Professor of the Department for Economics and Social and Humanitarian Disciplines of the Orenburg branch of the PRUE.
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Varavva M.Yu. Staff Gap: Amounts and Factors of It-Specialists Deficit in Russia. Vestnik of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. 2023;(4):171-180. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21686/2413-2829-2023-4-171-180
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