Gap management in regional labor markets based on professional competencies clusters

the changes in the internal needs of the economy in terms of labor resources professional competencies focused on digital, cognitive and innovative technologies are one of the most urgent problems of managing regional labor markets, associated with the emergence of gaps in the structure of demand and supply of labor resources and professional competence of specialists. The complexity of solving this problem is mediated not only by the complexity of the region's economy, but also by the lack of a logical monitoring mechanism, scientific and methodological approaches, and tools for identifying and measuring qualitative gaps between supply and demand in the region's labor markets. The purpose of the article is to develop a methodological approach to managing gaps in the labor markets of the region based on diagnostics of changes in parameters in clusters of professional competencies of labor resources, taking into account current and future business development strategies, which allows clarifying the trajectories of industry professional retraining of personnel. The methodological solutions proposed by the authors are based on a deep content analysis of scientific publications of domestic and foreign authors in relation to the identified problems, which allowed us to develop the author's approach to multi-level modeling of differentiated clusters of professional competencies by types of economic activity, categories of personnel (levels of training), with their subsequent division into groups of competencies (hard-skills, digital-skills, soft-skills); the algorithm of diagnostics, business entities, the concept of systematization of competencies that allow you to design the architecture of competencies that can be used in the development of models and profiles of competencies, as well as in Educational programs for training personnel by professional education institutions. The authors' developments are aimed at forming the scientific and methodological basis of the regional system of advanced training and continuing education, improving the mechanisms of interaction between government entities, businesses, educational institutions and the population; a proactive policy of leveling gaps in local labor markets and increasing the availability and consumption of educational services by the population of the territory.