• Due to the automation and rapid spread of new technologies, the labor market is polarized. The segments of low-skilled and highly skilled labor are growing, and the segment of mid-level qualification is declining. • Requirements for skills and competencies are changing rapidly following technologies. PhD skills have become more demanded. • Doctorate holders more often choose an "alternative" career: working in industry, in the service sector, and in new areas of the digital economy. • Digital skills have become an integral part of the professional skill sets both in the academy and in the industry. • Mobility of worker/professional contributes to the development of his skills and the accumulation of a "portfolio of competencies," which includes interdisciplinary skills, multitasks ability, communication skills in different environments, etc. • Organizations need to switch toward the "skills stock" model, i.e., to the model of cumulative "portfolio of competencies" of employees in different positions, that should replace the model of a rigid occupation structure.

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