Experts warned about the personnel bias due to the fashion for IT
Schoolchildren are increasingly focusing on IT and office professions, while in the regions there is a growing need for engineers, workers and technical specialists. Experts believe that such a gap between teenagers' career expectations and employers' demands increases the personnel imbalance. Why the choice of profession is often based on trends rather than real abilities is described in the Izvestia article.
Trends among schoolchildren
According to a study by the Brainie service, 46.7% of 7th-9th grade students choose the IT direction. Surveys show that teenagers are attracted to art, finance and economics, while biotechnology and chemical production remain the least in demand. However, the use of neurodiagnostics revealed that the real inclinations of children often do not coincide with their stated choice: after the tests, finance and the administrative sphere became the leaders.
"Young people often do not know the structure of the economy of their city and region, as well as the real requirements of employers, and the prestige of the profession is formed under the influence of social networks and the environment," said Sergey Latyshev, director of the Orenburg Region HR Center.
According to Roman Nikitin, first deputy head of the Moscow Employment Service and the Professions of the Future Center, if you do not engage in career guidance from school, young people make choices under the influence of outdated stereotypes, for example, that working professions are not profitable and prestigious. As a result, the region's economy is chronically skewed.
According to Irina Demyanenko, founder and head of the Union of Practicing Career Pathologists, traditional questionnaires and tests help to verify hypotheses that have already appeared, but they do not explain to a teenager why a particular direction is suitable for him.
"If the choice is based only on a questionnaire, the child is more likely to respond based on the self-image that has developed under the influence of family, school, social networks and the general fashion of the profession. Hence the choice of a publicized direction without understanding its content," Demyanenko said.
Shortage of personnel in industry
Regional employment services record a serious personnel imbalance. In the Vladimir region, about 9 thousand vacancies have been opened in manufacturing, more than 2 thousand in education and 1.5 thousand in medicine. In the Orenburg region, the interest of young people in office positions also significantly outstrips the structure of real offers from employers, where almost half of the vacancies do not require high qualifications.
In Moscow, there is still a high need for specialists for construction, housing, industry and trade. At the same time, employers need not just workers, but employees capable of managing robotic lines and complex IT systems.
"For businesses, this means staff instability, downtime, and the constant cost of finding employees. For future specialists, such a scenario is a wrong choice of direction, disappointment in the profession, and unrealization," said Roman Nikitin, deputy head of the Moscow Employment Service.
New methods of career guidance
To solve the problem of personnel shortage, VR technologies and neurodiagnostics are being introduced into the work of employment centers. In the capital, schoolchildren can test the skills of a welder, nurse or machinist using virtual simulators. Such professional tests help to see the real working conditions and correlate their interests with the requirements of the economy.
Specialists use EEG monitoring to assess the brain's response to various loads. This allows you to understand whether the teenager copes with the task at the cost of excessive stress or whether the job really suits him.
"EEG monitoring in career guidance makes the picture more accurate: it combines a teenager's sense of self, expert observation and objective data on how he reacts to different types of stress," said Ksenia Kunnikova, a methodologist and Candidate of Psychological Sciences.
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