Labor resources of the energy industry in the era of digitalization: key aspects

The Russian Federation occupies a leading position in the energy sector, while experiencing personnel problems in this industry. Under the influence of the digitalization of the economy, the skills and competencies of the workforce are being adapted. The purpose of the study is to analyze possible labor flows in the energy sector of the economy, considering professional skills and competencies.

The methodological basis of the research consists of general scientific methods, machine learning methods, semantic analysis, mathematical modeling, statistical analysis and others. In the course of the research, the authors built a competence profile of the energy industry based on professionally-oriented and socially-oriented skills. Digital skills were included in the first group. The analysis of the competence profile of the energy industry has shown the predominance of professional skills over social ones. To study the flows of labor resources in the energy industry, a measure of oriented competence differences was presented, as well as a matrix of differences in industries in the context of enlarged groups of professional skills, which, in turn, made it possible to identify industries that are donors of labor resources for the energy industry and industries that attract labor resources from the energy industry according to professional skills.

In the course of the study, when determining these indicators, it was revealed that the labor resources of the industry corresponding to the OKVED E are the closest to the labor resources of the industry under study.

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