Russian companies face a lack of managers

Most of the time, managers look for companies that are engaged in oil production, metals, chemical production, and agribusiness. According to Cornerstone, the average response time for a job opening has increased from three to six months.

• The supply crisis also overlapped with the growth in demand. According to the managing partner of the Ruspartners recruitment agency, Dina Akimova, a significant number of managers have left Russia. According to the agency, in the segment of top managers with a salary of more than 60 million rubles a year, about a third left, 20-60 million rubles – about a quarter.
• Another reason is the new requirements for top managers. If visionaries were needed before, people capable of thinking strategically on a global scale, now companies need pragmatic and anti-crisis leaders, said Oksana Morsina, managing partner of the RosExpert consulting firm. At the same time, as Denis Konanchuk, director of the department of corporate training at the Skolkovo School of Management, points out, managers are not yet ready to reorganize, since investments in education now seem risky and unprofitable to them.

Each company solves the problem of the shortage of such specialists in its own way. Many are restructuring businesses so fewer are open, or allowing those who have left to work remotely or only periodically visit the country, Akimova said.

Another way is to increase the attractiveness of the position by increasing the salary, which has already increased by 30-50%. “If before they could be offered company shares as a bonus, now, given the state of the Russian stock market, this has to be included in the permanent part of the salary,” he added.

• Staff shortages at Russia’s industrial enterprises have reached a record level since 1996, a survey by the Institute for Economic Policy showed. 35% worker shortage: Staff shortage is one of the main factors hindering economic growth, experts say.