Features of Professional Socialisation in the Context of Digitalisation

Abstract

The digital economy entails a change in the structure of employment, the emergence of new types of employment and types of professional activity, the need to change several types of professional activity during a career, high professional mobility, the emergence and growth of precariates. The competitive advantage of a professional is transfessionalism. The purpose of this article is to study the characteristics of professional socialisation of workers and the impact of these phenomena on changes in the labour market in the digital economy. Research methods that were used in the work—analysis of documents, analysis of statistical data, secondary data analysis. The results. The labour market (both world and in Russia) is the most sensitive indicator of digital changes. The consequence of digitalisation is the complexity of the organisation and functioning of the world of jobs and the change in the content of professions. The result of these challenges in the Russian labour market is an increase in the precarious work segment—up to 17 million people, which leads to the loss of professional identification. Professional socialisation today is possible without professional training: only a little more than 50% of graduates of vocational education organisations are employed according to the specialty they have received. Workers of pre-retirement age are actively changing the scope of professional work and are undergoing professional re-socialisation.