Obtaining High Quality Education and Success in the Labor Market: Modern Russian Realities

Abstract

The article examines the impact of obtaining higher education on successful employment and career ad-vancement. The universal competencies acquired by graduates of higher educational institutions (universities) significantly increase competitiveness in the labor market. These competencies and corresponding skills – crit-ical and integrative thinking, self-organization and adaptability, etc. – are developed by the higher education programs. Data from the Rosnavyk portal suggests that job advertisements that included these skills offered higher salaries than the regional average. By analyzing the dynamics of search queries, the interest of Internet users in the admission to universities was analyzed. Over the past five years, interest in obtaining higher educa-tion has not subsided, and also seasonally increases sharply during periods of admission to universities. It is concluded that despite the ambiguous data of sociological surveys on the importance of higher education, the current state of the labor market indicates that it presents one of the leading forms of investment in social capi-tal.