Perspectives of Human Capital Core Specialization for Digital Transformation in Romania

Abstract

The actual challenge is the digital transformation and the higher education holds the leading role to digital adoption and new skills providing. Based on the challenges highlighted by COVID19 pandemic, the new business models are shaped considering the digital transformation and the future jobs creation. They are requiring human resources with specific new skills and knowledge, educated in new teaching programs. The purpose of the study was to explore the Romanian higher education system capacity to create human capital core specialization for digital transformation in view to design a sustainable occupational mobility. It used the theory based analysis as a logic model, particularly in terms of the causal linkages between outputs and the different levels of outcome. Higher education spatial and temporal analysis were conducted with focus on study programs with relevant content for digital transformation creation in the framework the unified matriculation register. The specialized study programs are the intervention that should make the difference in digital transformation. Interdisciplinarity is the core of the new digital occupations formalization which request to develop and update an appropriate taxonomy based on a common scientific framework. The study offers practical inputs to design new tools for interdisciplinary management in creation of new occupational standards, to design study programs adequate for the new digitalized economy. A second finding refers to the domains that are faster moving forward to the new dimensions of digital adoption and futures jobs, the labor mobility, flexibility and hybrid or remote opportunities being part of the new business paradigm.