Geopolitical situation in the world today is resigned to the active influence of globalization processes. In turn, they can develop in opposite directions. On the one hand it implies the openness of economies, the fusion of cultural and social spheres, on the other hand it demonstrates the localization of the competitive advantages of independent states. This localization is caused by uneven distribution of economic resources in a wide range of factors: natural, physical, geographical, social, historical, ethnic and others. Consequently, diversification of economic structure of countries on a number of ranking prejudge their macroeconomic indicators that forms the current multi-level system.
At the current stage of economic development, there is a lot of discussions about optimization policies, which have become widespread in both the industrial and sociocultural spheres. There are ambiguous positions on the justification of its application and various interpretations of the phenomenon itself, which balance in the corridor of polar opinions from categorically negative, to acceptable and necessary. Despite the fact that economic experts traditionally see optimization as a way to improve the efficiency of all management systems and, consequently, increase the competitiveness of the national economy, among the population the latest results of such a policy have been persistently rejected. Moreover, optimization is perceived by most people primitively, through simple cutback of the number of social institutions, merger of enterprises, monopoly threats that leads to job losses, on the one hand, and towards quality deterioration of goods and services, on the other hand. Meanwhile, optimization remains the key factor of the growth of the competitiveness of the economy in a global scale. Thus, it is necessary to investigate the phenomenon of optimization of the socio-economic sphere, to understand the reasons for the divergence of the concept itself and to analyze possible options for adapting the optimization strategy to modern Russian conditions.
With the transition to a post-industrial type of development, new requirements for the main productive power of society have emerged, caused by the dynamics and content of scientific and technological progress and the peculiarities of the new technological way of life. Evaluation of the professional skills of the employee has become particularly important due to the awareness of the key role that a person playsin solving the problem of improving the efficiency of public production. Economics has always reliedon the human factor, which most of scientists have repeatedly emphasized throughout the development of economic thought since the days of the classical economic school. The priority of the social and economic development of modern society in post-industrial economy makes human capital an essential point of actual economic relations.However, the problems of assessing human capital remain the least studied part of the whole range of issues relating to its functioning. The lack of universal assessment methods, the complexity of the environment of human capital, caused by the requirements of the "new" economy-all this makes important any detail of existing approaches. 1. Introduction
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