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digitization. Pre-existing skills will change their appearance. That is, artificial intelligence will force
people to adapt to new work habits: they will have to interact with new algorithms and technologies.
The value of knowledge will increase, but only if it can be put into practice. Another important issue
of recent years has been the increase in informal employment, that is, the increase in the number of
non-on-the-job workers. For example, in 2020, there were nearly 53 million people working
informally and as a major source of wages in the United States alone. The rise of informal
employment has been largely facilitated by digital technologies and various online job boards and
specialized online platforms for temporary work (for example, Upwork and Amazon Mechanical
Turk). Currently, these digital platforms directly influence the hiring decisions of less than 1% of the
American workforce, but in the near future, they believe, the role of such job boards will increase
dramatically. Work on the introduction of components of the Bologna process into the national
education system creates new additional opportunities for the modernization of higher professional
education, the exchange of students and teachers with universities of the countries of Europe and the
Commonwealth of Independent States that have recognized the Bologna process. More specifically,
assessments of student learning are clear. This creates the necessary conditions for the rise of the
national education system to the world level and the provision of the country's labor market with
highly qualified employees. Today, increasing attention to youth employment issues is important
because their positive solution allows the realization of labor potential in the country, as well as
provides economic development in the country. According to estimates given by the International
Labor Organization, if the youth unemployment rate in the world is halved, the global GDP will
increase by 5-7%. These data not only show that the youth is a huge creative force in ensuring the
socio-economic development of the country, but also testify that the future direction of the country
depends on the solution of these problems at the present time. There are several features of the set of
activities for youth employment:
First of all, great importance is placed on coordinating the work of institutions that help young
people to adapt to the labor market, that is, systems related to education, family, employment, and
vocational training. Second, it is noteworthy that different groups of young people, such as industrial
workers, job seekers, graduates, high school seniors, and military service youth, are covered by
specific activities in the plan. Thirdly, in order to assess the actual situation in the youth labor market,
it is necessary to collect data on its subjects, analyze them systematically, and predict future
development trends based on them. Fourthly, the importance of coordinating the activities of various
sectors to provide employment, vocational training and professional guidance to its various groups,
especially young citizens looking for work, is increasing. This task falls to the Pudagara group on
employment of young specialists in Turkmenistan, which was approved by the specific decision 319
issued by the President of Turkmenistan on August 18, 2017.
Thus, in the conditions of digitization of the economy, employers are faced with new
requirements, that is, looking for new ways to hire specialists with digital skills and to secure them
in their jobs. As a result of the digitization of the economy, such trends in the development of the
labor market are carefully studied by academic economists.