OP 17 December, 2024 - 06:33 AM
The IT industry of the Russian Federation lacks up to 1 million employees, IT companies pay for training for future employees due to competitionAccording to the estimates of the state, universities and business, the IT industry of the Russian Federation lacks from 740 thousand to 1 million employees, and by 2030 it will be necessary to train and train more than 2 million people. Against the backdrop of a personnel shortage, IT companies began to pay for the training of future employees themselves. Experts believe that the competition for specialists will continue, and the main emphasis on finding employees will take place at universities.
IT companies told the media that the labor market is now very dynamically poaching specialists. Employers try to keep employees in the workplace with a variety of bonuses in addition to salary increases, for example, they provide voluntary health insurance, work equipment, flexible working hours and other non-financial ways of motivation.
Boris Nuraliev, Director of 1C and Head of the Education Committee of APKIT (Association of Computer and Information Technology Enterprises), said that in Russia, about 3% of all employees are employed in the IT industry. According to the Ministry of Digital Development, this figure is 2%. According to this indicator, Russia is catching up with Romania and Slovenia, but in the Nordic countries, three times as many people are employed in the field. And on average in the EU, IT specialists account for about 4.6% of the labor market.
According to APKIT, by 2030 the number of IT workers in the economy in Russia should be at least 4.9%. This means that in 2025-2030 it is necessary to attract 2 million new highly qualified specialists and 700 thousand medium-qualified specialists. IT companies believe that it is the lack of specialists that prevents them from developing.
The IT industry believes that it is necessary to increase not only the quantity, but also the quality of training in universities. Also, there are now quite a lot of accelerated training programs: online, offline and hybrid formats, where professional skills in the field of IT are taught in 3-6 months or a year. But these courses cannot cover all the requirements of companies.
Currently, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, 4-5 resumes from juniors come for one vacancy. But they are deprived of fundamental education, as well as systematic, critical and creative thinking. According to representatives of the IT industry, universities should be flexible, quickly respond to changes in the world of technology and science, but at the same time maintain a fundamental approach to learning.
Some IT companies explained that "it has become very bad" with fundamental training in universities, because universities provide only a technology stack, that is, a certain set of tools. And fundamentality in education is lacking precisely for those who could eventually play a key role in companies.
At the same time, business also has questions about the quality of juniors who graduate from universities. IT companies believe that practitioners, that is, their employees, should teach hard skills at universities. For example, at ITMO, up to 80-85% of disciplines and modules related to hard skills are provided not by full-time university professors, but by business specialists.
For example, Gazprom Neft's programme for the development of a training system in the field of ITAT is designed in such a way that 70% of IT specialists for the company and its partners at universities are trained by employees of software developers. The company invests in universities, even if not all students from there go on to work in their organizations. The actual situation is such that you need to fight for students, and save money They will not work, since you need to invest in both training and wages.
The IT industry believes that internships and internships for students should be paid, which increases interest in working within the company, but so far not all companies use this situation for their own purposes.
Tatyana Gubina, Head of the Department for Work with Educational Organizations at Basalt SPO, explained to the media that there are very few practicing teachers who can competently read courses and convey information on the material to students. Other experts and universities fear that practitioners will simply take the places of full-time teachers, squeezing them out of universities. On the other hand, the IT industry understands that it is very important to retain teachers in universities who can provide fundamental training, and most companies can teach professional skills on their own already in the process of internship, since it is not possible to teach how to work with the entire cycle and form thinking at the university immediately due to the lack of the necessary competencies even among the best practitioners.
In early November, the media reported that the shortage of engineering personnel in the Russian Federation is about 600 thousand specialists, and every fifth Russian company is actively looking for engineers. Representatives of higher educational institutions and telecommunications companies of the Russian Federation also said that there is an acute shortage of engineers in the information industry, despite the increase in salaries. In their opinion, university students are now more focused on working with artificial intelligence than on engineering.
Earlier, the head of Sberbank, Herman Gref, said that the shortage of IT specialists in the Russian Federation is 1 million people. According to him, in the coming years it will be impossible to cover this shortage of developers and engineers.
source : IT-отрасли РФ не хватает до 1 млн сотрудников, IТ-компании оплачивают обучение будущим работникам из-за конкуренции – Люди PRO Media
IT companies told the media that the labor market is now very dynamically poaching specialists. Employers try to keep employees in the workplace with a variety of bonuses in addition to salary increases, for example, they provide voluntary health insurance, work equipment, flexible working hours and other non-financial ways of motivation.
Boris Nuraliev, Director of 1C and Head of the Education Committee of APKIT (Association of Computer and Information Technology Enterprises), said that in Russia, about 3% of all employees are employed in the IT industry. According to the Ministry of Digital Development, this figure is 2%. According to this indicator, Russia is catching up with Romania and Slovenia, but in the Nordic countries, three times as many people are employed in the field. And on average in the EU, IT specialists account for about 4.6% of the labor market.
According to APKIT, by 2030 the number of IT workers in the economy in Russia should be at least 4.9%. This means that in 2025-2030 it is necessary to attract 2 million new highly qualified specialists and 700 thousand medium-qualified specialists. IT companies believe that it is the lack of specialists that prevents them from developing.
The IT industry believes that it is necessary to increase not only the quantity, but also the quality of training in universities. Also, there are now quite a lot of accelerated training programs: online, offline and hybrid formats, where professional skills in the field of IT are taught in 3-6 months or a year. But these courses cannot cover all the requirements of companies.
Currently, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, 4-5 resumes from juniors come for one vacancy. But they are deprived of fundamental education, as well as systematic, critical and creative thinking. According to representatives of the IT industry, universities should be flexible, quickly respond to changes in the world of technology and science, but at the same time maintain a fundamental approach to learning.
Some IT companies explained that "it has become very bad" with fundamental training in universities, because universities provide only a technology stack, that is, a certain set of tools. And fundamentality in education is lacking precisely for those who could eventually play a key role in companies.
At the same time, business also has questions about the quality of juniors who graduate from universities. IT companies believe that practitioners, that is, their employees, should teach hard skills at universities. For example, at ITMO, up to 80-85% of disciplines and modules related to hard skills are provided not by full-time university professors, but by business specialists.
For example, Gazprom Neft's programme for the development of a training system in the field of ITAT is designed in such a way that 70% of IT specialists for the company and its partners at universities are trained by employees of software developers. The company invests in universities, even if not all students from there go on to work in their organizations. The actual situation is such that you need to fight for students, and save money They will not work, since you need to invest in both training and wages.
The IT industry believes that internships and internships for students should be paid, which increases interest in working within the company, but so far not all companies use this situation for their own purposes.
Tatyana Gubina, Head of the Department for Work with Educational Organizations at Basalt SPO, explained to the media that there are very few practicing teachers who can competently read courses and convey information on the material to students. Other experts and universities fear that practitioners will simply take the places of full-time teachers, squeezing them out of universities. On the other hand, the IT industry understands that it is very important to retain teachers in universities who can provide fundamental training, and most companies can teach professional skills on their own already in the process of internship, since it is not possible to teach how to work with the entire cycle and form thinking at the university immediately due to the lack of the necessary competencies even among the best practitioners.
In early November, the media reported that the shortage of engineering personnel in the Russian Federation is about 600 thousand specialists, and every fifth Russian company is actively looking for engineers. Representatives of higher educational institutions and telecommunications companies of the Russian Federation also said that there is an acute shortage of engineers in the information industry, despite the increase in salaries. In their opinion, university students are now more focused on working with artificial intelligence than on engineering.
Earlier, the head of Sberbank, Herman Gref, said that the shortage of IT specialists in the Russian Federation is 1 million people. According to him, in the coming years it will be impossible to cover this shortage of developers and engineers.
source : IT-отрасли РФ не хватает до 1 млн сотрудников, IТ-компании оплачивают обучение будущим работникам из-за конкуренции – Люди PRO Media