Labor potential of engineering personnel in the russian oil and gas region: problems of development in the system of secondary professional education

The article studies urgent issues of development of the labor potential of engineering personnel and the role of secondary vocational education system. The consideration of the theoretical foundations of the «development of labor potential» concept became the basis for the formation of the author's vision of it as an irreversible and purposeful change in the consciousness and actions of workers, resulting in a new quality. The study of the peculiarities of the development of the labor potential of engineering personnel on the example of the Tyumen Region has shown that the system of secondary vocational education in the Region is aimed at creating conditions for reducing the existing gap between the knowledge received by students under educational programs and the knowledge required by business and the market. The revealed problems have served as a basis for formation of offers on the environment creation directed on the formation of conditions of development of labour potential of engineering personnel in the system of the intermediate vocational education of the Tyumen Region