Keyword: «future of jobs»

The article deals with the transformation of the labor market and changes in the demand for skills of specialists under the influence of modern factors: digitalization, the spread of environmental, social and management standards (ESG), slow economic growth and a high cost of living. The authors raise questions: what kind of world should we prepare students for? What skills are mostly demanded today? The authors come to the conclusion that in the conditions of an unstable, multi-valued, complex and indefinite world, skills from the “soft” (over-professional) category become the most significant. This is confirmed by data from the World Economic Forum research published in the Future of Jobs reports in 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2023. The authors propose to create a Personal Management Laboratory on the basis of Petrozavodsk State University for a systematic solution to the problem of the lack of the most demanded supra-professional skills today.