The Foundations and Prospects of Staffing the Economy

Abstract

The chapter examines the issues of staffing the economy in the context of the groundwork and prospects. The prerequisites for updating the topic of staffing the economy are highlighted and the urgent problems hindering technological development are systematized. Attention is focused on forecasting personnel needs as the main mechanism for overcoming imbalances between the needs of the economy in personnel and the capabilities of the education system. Scientific and normative methods and models of forecasting personnel needs are investigated, typical metrics are generalized. The interrelationships between the priorities of socio-economic development of the subjects of the Russian Federation and staffing and staff shortage are analyzed. The limitations of forecasting methods for personnel needs are systematized. Special attention is paid to approaches to ensuring the human resources needs of the economy for the purposes of forming a national project and implementing the goals of technological development. The continuity of the components of the methodology for forecasting personnel needs of the new format and qualitative changes in the set of statistical data and approaches to the selection of a source base for the purpose of forecasting personnel needs are reflected.