Abstract:

The paper presents the results of an analysis of the relationship between the views of students and the expert community on the importance of supra-professional competencies for future human resource management specialists and the results of the assessment-center. The theoretical part of the study was implemented by methods of content analysis, classification and generalization of the results of a review of research by scientists on the issue of importance and the assessment of the formation of supra-professional competencies of personnel management specialists. The empirical part of the study is based on the application of methods of logical and comparative analysis, a standardized survey. One of the key research methods was the assessment-center. The paper presents the results of an online survey of the importance of developing the professional competencies of personnel management specialists in the labour market, conducted among 146 students and 100 employers in Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk. The survey data were compared with the results of the assessment center, which was attended by 85 students in the field of training "HR-Management" from 11 Russian universities and 30 assessors, heads of personnel management services of enterprises in Yekaterinburg. Based on the results of a one-way analysis of variance indicators of preliminary assessment and self-assessment of the level of development of competencies, as well as the final indicators of the assessment center, it was concluded that there are significant differences in group means and weak correlation of the results of self-assessment and assessment of student competencies. The results of the study may be of interest to specialists in the field of HR-management, as well as to scientists interested in the issues of human capital management.

Keywords:

Assessment-center, competence modelling, HR-management, supra-professional competencies, labour market, higher education.