ATTRACTING AND RETAINING YOUNG SPECIALISTS IN THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY

Abstract

Attracting and retaining young researchers and lecturers in universities is one of the most important social and economic challenges in today’s system of Russian higher education within the frames of strategy aimed at making the university faculty younger. The article provides findings of the research dealing with methods of improving university’s efforts aimed at attracting younger specialists to the faculty. It shows the results of analyzing personnel of the Russian Plekhanov University of Economics by age and discusses a set of steps aiming at raising the level of labour satisfaction of the younger faculty. The novelty of conclusions and practical recommendations is connected with linking measures of the development of young staff reserve with steps aimed at making university rating indicators higher, which turns young specialists into a real strategic resource of raising its competitiveness. In this sphere special attention should be paid to proposals dealing with the development and wider use of such a quality of younger university employees as their knowledge of foreign languages. It will allow to attract them to classes of Russian-English programs and to intensify the work of the faculty in overseas social networks, platforms Scopus, Web of Science (WOS) and to organize the work for designing and implementing programs of further professional education in foreign language. The participation of young specialists in this and any other activity, which could bring profit, will make it possible to resolve a problem important for any university, i.e. motivation and low pay of young specialists.