the article analyses the major trends on the Russian labour market today and in the short-term. In order to assess the situation on the labour market, the article analyses the results of the research conducted by the authors together with the recruitment agency Hays in Russia. The competences and professions that will be needed in the future have been reviewed, the paths to success for the modern market actors are analysed, as well as the issues associated with the changing mode of operation and factors that are going to directly impact this transformation.

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The study is devoted to the adaptation of new employees in modern Russian companies. The purpose of the study is to analyse the conformity of approaches to the organization of adaptation in large and medium Russian companies to international trends in personnel management. The main focus is on studying the degree of involvement of managers and the role of HR managers in the adaptation of new employees, the regulation of the adaptation process, the use of digital technologies in organizing the adaptation. The study was conducted in an on-line survey format among 140 leaders and HR managers of deferent Russian companies in December 2019. The first day of a new employee's work most often begins with a meeting with an HR manager and team leader, but then their role and influence in the adaptation process are further reduced. Most Russian companies don't have a built-in adaptation system as a process, single format for the adaptation plan, welcome trainings and a mentor's systems for new workers, final meetings with feedback at the end of the adaptation period. Also, companies rarely use modern digital technologies to organize the adaptation process. At the same time, most of the participants in the study felt themselves maximally adapted both professionally and psychologically after 3 months of work. It can be assumed that if an effective adaptation system is created in the company, then the term for the adaptation of new employees to the working environment will be reduced to 2 months.

The paper presents the results of a study dedicated to assessment of the effectiveness of vibration use to intensify the process of classification of loose mediums at arch screens. In the laboratory, the experiment was based on the separation of bulk material flow at the arch screen. The frequency and amplitude of oscillations of the screening surface were taken as variable parameters, while the response function was the fraction of take-off product in the total volume of the sifted mass of bulk material. According to the experiment data processing using the method of mathematical planning, the feasibility of vibrations application was confirmed, providing a reduction of energy consumption up to 14%.

The problem that is described in the article has become one of the most crucial and important during first pandemic months of 2020. All new working conditions were a tough challenge for companies that should change all their process to keep the business alive. But even in that crisis times companies have to hire the new personnel and especially crucial not only hire but to adapt people to work both in new company and new remote or partly remote conditions. In this article the manager’s adaptation and involvement management process is reviewed from the point of view of restricted communication methods. The implementation of project management theory approach is described as a tool that could improve and secure the adaptation aspect of human resource management.