New job and different salary: how Petersburgers change their specialty

The CORONAVIRUS pandemic has seriously tightened the situation in the labor market. Restrictions on the work of companies have significantly worsened their economies: many had to close, and those that remained have to actively reduce costs, including by optimizing the number of staff. At the same time, first of all, employees are fired, the functions of which the company can do without - either by shifting them to others, or by automating them. As a result, unemployment in RUSSIA increased.

At the same time, in some sectors, the need for labor has increased markedly due to the pandemic. However, it is not possible to satisfy her with the dismissed, because they do not have the necessary qualifications. As a result, the need for retraining has increased dramatically.

The national project "Demography" is called upon to close the gap between the deficit of some competencies and the surplus of others, which, among other things, provides for a large-scale additional vocational education (CPE) within the framework of the "Program of vocational training and additional vocational education for certain categories of citizens". At the recently held V St. Petersburg International Labor Forum, the participants of this program discussed the problems related to it during the Lifelong learning track.

How it works

More than 80 universities from 65 regions of Russia participate in the FVE program, designed to retrain about 170,000 people for the purpose of finding employment or starting their own business. Three federal operators have been coordinating the process since 2021: RANEPA, Tomsk State University and the autonomous non-profit organization "Agency for the Development of Professional Skills" ("WorldSkills Russia" - represents Russia in the international organization WorldSkills International (WSI). In 2021, over 3 billion rubles.

In St. Petersburg, the Center for Advanced Professional Training of St. Petersburg is the integrator and aggregator of all educational programs in the area of ​​further education (a state structure created within the framework of the national education project and the federal project "Young Professionals").