Analyst Semushkina: The labor market in the Russian IT sector has become unpredictable
The current situation on the Russian labor market in the IT sphere, considered one of the key sectors for the national economy, is unpredictable. The tense situation in this industry was stated by Albina Semushkina, head of recruitment at the Bastion information security system integrator. Her words are quoted by the newspaper “News”.
As she specified, there is currently a shortage of the most experienced specialists, i.e. “seniors”, in this segment. The analyst explained that Russian employers are in high demand for the services of the latter. However, the general shortage of personnel in the country does not allow for the full satisfaction of the active interest of the heads of domestic companies.
Semushkina named the sharp increase in financial requests from highly qualified candidates against the backdrop of high competition for valuable personnel as one of the main reasons for this trend. “They (requests from top Russian IT specialists — note from “Lenta.ru”) increased by 2-2.5 times compared to last year,” the expert summed up.
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She added that currently companies are mainly looking for narrow-profile specialists. The attractiveness of candidates with a broad profile or no experience at all is now much lower. In the field of information security, she explained, employers are mainly looking for applicants with expertise in Pentest, AppSec, DevSecOps, Incident Response. As for IT, specialists in Machine learning engineering, Machine learning operations and Data Analysis are in high demand here, concluded Semushkina.
In the first half of July, analysts from Blank Bank reported a serious shortage of qualified IT specialists in Russia. According to their data, at that time, representatives of small and medium-sized businesses in the country were experiencing a deficit of 130 thousand programmers. Earlier, the Izvestia newspaper also reported on the increasing personnel shortage in the key sector of the Russian economy. According to estimates from surveyed market participants, the shortage of personnel in this segment amounted to 45 percent of the number of employees.
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