The development of the labor market and increased mobility of human resources allowed companies to move to a wider application of flexible management methods. The proliferation of new forms of employment has led to both positive results related to the expansion of opportunities for individual self-realization and the growth of independence and responsibility for personal, professional and socio-institutional growth, as well as to the negative consequences, especially precarization. Unsustainable employment, instability of income and of the sphere of activity, precariousness of employment as a form of structuring time and as a source of satisfying needs reflect the negative aspects of precarization, which today directly affect the sphere of education. Investing in human capital, primarily in the formation of an individual, is based on the longterm reasoning, and the unpredictability of return on investment (ROI) casts doubt on the formation of highly qualified personnel, especially in the field of changing high-tech industries with rapid innovative growth. The spread of partial employment, freelance, projects' work, the implementation of point orders under onetime contracts in the field of highly qualified industrial personnel increases the risk of loss of interest of the country's population in the formation of skills and knowledge, especially in engineering and technical fields with high requirements for cognitive practices, which is threat to the growth of intellectual capital of industrial enterprises, the region and the country as a whole.