75% of vacancies for specialists with secondary vocational education have been opened in Moscow.

75% of the 500,000 vacancies in Moscow require specialists with secondary vocational education (SPE), Anastasia Rakova, Deputy Mayor of the capital for Social Development, told Izvestia in an interview.

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"The main source of replenishment of the workforce is, of course, young people who enter the market after completing their education. But only 20% of these guys have secondary vocational education, 60% have higher education," she noted.

According to Rakova, the city's economy employs 8 million people. There is a shortage of personnel in almost all industries.

"It is most acute in industry, construction, transport, and IT," said the deputy mayor.

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