The paper analyzes the current state of the labor market in Russia, shows the need to improve mathematical and software tools for managing the regional human resources potential and the imbalance between the labor markets (LM) and educational services market (ESM), and suggests an approach to building a model for identifying criteria that affect LM and ESM in the construction sector on the example of the Belgorod region. The features of the development of the construction sector in the Belgorod region are considered. Based on the analysis of the collected statistical data and expert judgments, groups of criteria and criteria in each group that affect the amount of imbalance are identifie
