Improving the Competitiveness of Individual Workforce in the Formation of a Region’s Labor Potential

Abstract

The issue of balanced development of the labor market by expanding the services sector in the regional economy raises the question of using the social reserves of this process. This problem has been a subject of discussion for a long period and is not related only to the transition to market relations. It is in this competitive struggle that own internal social reserves, previously not consciously realized by individuals, can be most fully revealed and realized. The main issue is to identify the socio-economic basis for the formation of a competitive employee. This factor, as well as the processes of disindustrialization, are accompanied by a number of structural changes, including in the field of employment. The increase in labor productivity, the transition to more and more specialized technologies cause a significant release of labor from the mineral wealth and industrial sectors of the economy and their overflow into the services sector.In modern Russian conditions, this is all more relevant because the restructuring of the national and regional economy and post-crisis phenomena have caused significant changes in employment, while not in a positive way.