Interactional experience with the employer during a selection of educational content in a single-industry town

Abstract

Training of personnel for industrial enterprises of a single-industry town is an opportunity for the stable development of the local labor market. As a rule, single-industry towns of our country are mechanical engineering or coal-metallurgical towns. Nizhny Tagil is no exception. On its territory there are metallurgical, mining and machine-building enterprises. Colleges and universities that train specialists for town-forming enterprises can be a driver for the stable functioning of a single-town economy. For this, it is necessary to adapt the content of educational programs to the actual needs of employers. The article describes a number of problems that representatives of educational institutions had to solve in the process of interaction with an employer to update the content of education. Such problems were: difficulties in visiting enterprises, in particular, defense (machine-building) ones, ambiguity in the interpretation of the concept of ‘competence’ by teachers and employers, the difficulty of dividing workers by education levels on the part of employers. A simplified version of the employer survey form is proposed. It allows to determine the priority areas in the training of personnel for the industry.