What else besides salary?
Elina Kudishina, HR Director of Oberon, told socialbites.ca that it will not be possible to keep IT specialists in Russia with salary increase alone. According to experts from the Habr IT portal, the average salary in the field in Russia is 165,771 rubles. monthly.
“But there are categories of professions from which such a salary will begin, and the maximum will approach 450 thousand rubles.” said Kudishina. According to him, developers related to Java, Android, iOS and Kotlin can count on such an award.
But the salary level for this region has always been 15-30% higher than the market. At the same time, the usual 5-7% indexation of salaries is not interesting for IT professionals, ”she explained.
In this context, the expert considers it important to make the social package even more attractive at the same time. “It covers compulsory health insurance” [медицинская страховка. — прим. ред.] It is for life insurance as well as for employees and relatives and children.”
Mobile communication is no longer seen as part of the social package, but simply as a work tool.
Also, a potential new offer (job offer) for an IT specialist should include preferential conditions for fitness classes, own gyms, discounts on foreign language training, loyalty programs for purchasing goods and services with partner companies at a good discount.
According to Kudishina, the listed activities are increasingly in demand among IT applicants.
“Training in specialist courses, obtaining certification from vendors is a mandatory requirement for a competitive employer. In addition, remote work and the hybrid work format have become permanent conditions for IT offerings,” he said.
As a result, a reasonable fee, a social package, and organization of events will help persuade IT professionals to refuse to move abroad. In the last paragraph, Oberon’s HR director included the exchange of experience with colleagues, participation in conferences and meetings with partners and vendors.
Intangible factors are also important – the contribution to the common cause, the ability to influence the result, and he is sure to consider the opinion of an expert on the project team.
Staff shortage is growing
According to the Ministry of Digital Development, there is currently a shortage of IT specialists in Russia. Elina Kudishina from Oberon announced that the country is missing from 500 thousand to 1 million in the IT sector.
“As experts predicted, [дефицит айтишников] It could rise to 2 million by 2027. This is due to the limited budget places for IT specialties in universities and the interest of IT specialists in foreign offers.”
Kudishina explained that currently the Ministry of Digital Development is actively working on increasing the budget places in universities. According to him, there is an annual increase of more than 12% in student admission to IT specialties.
The personnel gap is also eliminated through cooperation programs with universities. As an example, the top manager of Oberon cited the core division of Yandex at the Higher School of Economics, which trains highly demanded specialists in the field of data analysis. The teachers of the department are also employees of the Russian company.
“There are good math students “on the pencil” in business, and from the second and third years they are increasingly involved in solving “combat” tasks,” said the expert.
The measures taken are not enough
These measures by the Russian government are more aimed not at supporting IT professionals, but at supporting IT entrepreneurs as they are more concerned with tax and administrative benefits, the founder and CEO of medical technology company MDinc told socialbites.ca Magomed. Emin Idylov.
“In this regard, it goes without saying that these measures will be sufficient to keep IT experts in the country. It is worth remembering that the IT sector has always been a gateway to immigration, so to speak, and that many people who associate their lives with IT do not, in principle, see themselves in Russia.”
According to Idilov, if we talk about keeping IT professionals in the company, it should be understood that the competition for them is always very high – while working conditions become more or less equal, even equal, for different employers.
The head of MDinc explained that we are talking about a high salary and a generous motivation policy, including various non-financial activities.
“I think many IT professionals look not only at the above factors, but also at the attractiveness of the project for them. Often, really smart experts want to use their knowledge in interesting projects,” Idilov concluded.
or enough
Elina Kudishina from Oberon, on the other hand, sees the measures proposed by the Ministry of Digital Development as an excellent basis on which companies can build their proposals to potential employees.
According to him, it is realistic to slow down the exit of IT specialists from Russia with the joint efforts of the state and business.
Currently, Russian developers are faced with cash gaps (lack of money to finance already approved expenditures in the budget. – Ed.), difficulties in attracting financial resources, supply chain disruptions, changes in the composition of pilot projects and a general increase in prices. non-financial assets.
“To solve these problems, the ministry proposes to increase the maximum share of state co-financing of projects from 50% to 80%,” said the expert.
The funds are the Fund for Support for the Development of Small Businesses in the Scientific and Technical Field (Bortnik Fund), the Fund for the Development of the Center for the Development and Commercialization of New Technologies (Skolkovo Fund), and the Russian Information Technology Development Fund (RFRIT).
The Ministry of Digital Development also proposes to allocate 14 billion rubles. Supporting IT companies in the form of grants.
Source: Gazeta
