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Professions

Urban ecologist

The profession appears before 2020

Designer of new cities based on environmentally-friendly biotechnologies, specializing in construction, power engineering and environment pollution control. The job is already on offer, with high-tech green cities being designed and constructed in Malaysia, China, the United Arab Emirates, India, South Korea, and European countries.

Professional skills and abilities

Space brand manager

The profession appears before 2020

Advisor and responsible person for filling a virtual world with cultural content connected with a particular area. Creates the image and legend of a location, and adds design, identity, news, tourist services, and various events. All this makes the area unique, attracting visitors and turning it into a competitive tourist destination. The job already exists, and will grow in relevance as time goes on. Accordingly, requirements for specialists in this field will increase as well.

Professional skills and abilities

Power marketing expert

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist with a good knowledge of the Russian and global power market, dealing with power sales. Need for the profession is caused by the increasing competition on the power market and emergence of a large number of private businesses. There is no demand for it in Russia as of now, but issues of micro generation and distributed grids will become highly topical very soon. In the west, however, the specialty of power marketing expert is quite developed.

Cross-logistics operator

The profession appears before 2020

Professional with a competence in selecting the best methods of cargo and passenger delivery using different modes of transportation; control and adjustment of traffic throughout a multimodal network; monitoring of the passability of transportation hubs; redistribution of traffic flows in transportation networks.

Professional skills and abilities

Personal profile security advisor

The profession appears before 2020

Advisor on the information security of Internet users.Compiles the current information image of a client based on all of the information about them available on the Internet.Audits the client’s activities on the Internet for weak spots, confidentiality and general security. At the client’s request, eliminates weak spots, edits (or deletes) the user’s information on the Internet, and shapes the information image of the client.

Professional skills and abilities

IT auditor

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist in software development. Audits complex IT systems processing data and making decisions based on such data. Errors in, or breach of, such systems pose high risks.Provides audits of such systems for the security of their software, including the process of its development and qualifications of the developer.

IT preacher

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist in communications with end users of IT products and promotion of new solutions to groups having a conservative attitude towards advanced technology.The IT preacher will teach people to use new software and services to reduce the digital gap.Activities aimed at training people in “digital literacy” are offered today, usually on a voluntary basis, but this will become a real job in the near future.

Professional skills and abilities

Interface designer

The profession appears before 2020

This professional develops user-friendly, adaptive and safe interfaces for equipment, devices and software of various levels.He/she is highly competent in usability (creating interfaces most comfortable for the user).The interface designer is an existing and popular job, with 2,015 vacancies published in July 2014, according to HeadHunter.However, the growing intensity of human-machine interaction will require greater numbers of such specialists, while their skills will need further development to be able to achieve new objectives.

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Биоэтик

The profession appears before 2020

<p> Биоэтик — специалист, обеспечивающий нормативно-правовые и этические рамки деятельности медицинских, диагностических и биоинженерных центров. Без консультаций с биоэтиком не обойдется ни одна передовая лаборатория – особенно когда дело касается исследований с эмбрионами и человеческим биоматериалом. </p>

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Специалист по трансляционной медицине

The profession appears before 2020

<p> Специалист по трансляционной медицине — профессионал, который занимается организацией передачи результатов исследований в практическое здравоохранение. Сейчас в среднем на разработку и внедрение одного лекарства требуется около 10–15 лет — это означает, что многие люди продолжают годами страдать от болезней, когда решение уже найдено. Специалист по трансляционной медицине ищет способы ускорить путь от разработки нового перспективного лекарства до его попадания на рынок, например, за счет компьютерного моделирования и высокотехнологичных лабораторных исследований. </p>

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Специалист по реабилитации загрязненных территорий

The profession appears before 2020

Специалист по реабилитации загрязненных территорий — разрабатывает программы реабилитационных работ, снижающих радиационную нагрузку на окружающую среду (сбор и сортировка отходов, очистка грунта и воды, рекультивация территорий и т. д.).

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Проектировщик доступной среды

The profession appears before 2020

Проектировщик доступной среды— специалист, который занимается разработкой инфраструктурных решений для детей, пенсионеров и людей с ограниченными физическими возможностями вокруг объекта недвижимости (например, детские площадки, лифты для инвалидов, указатели для слабовидящих людей, пандусы, места для отдыха и т. д.).

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Экоурбанист

The profession appears before 2020

Экоурбанист — создает проекты городских пространств на основе экологических биотехнологий; специализируется в областях строительства, энергетики и контроля загрязнения среды. Он может как помогать строить новые города, так и разрабатывать программы улучшения уже существующих. Высокотехнологичные «зеленые города» проектируют и строят в Малайзии, Китае, Арабских Эмиратах, Индии, Южной Корее и странах Европы. Старые города постепенно реорганизуются, становясь более экологичными. Например, немецкий город Фрайбург, основанный в 1120 году, планирует к 2046 году перейти на полное энергетическое самообеспечение за счет альтернативной энергетики. Первый экогород в России, Новое Ступино, строится в Подмосковье.

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Координатор программ развития сообществ

The profession appears before 2020

Координатор программ развития сообществ — специалист, который организует и поддерживает диалог между независимыми командами производителей, согласовывая их долгосрочные цели и общий образ будущего, помогая им определить программу совместных инвестиций в производственные мощности и людей. Это новый уровень управления проектами: в будущем управленцам придется координировать работу проектных команд, участники которых находятся в разных странах.

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Куратор образовательного туризма

The profession appears before 2020

Куратор образовательного туризма—специалист на стыке сфер туризма и образования, занимающийся разработкой и внедрением туристических программ, выстроенных таким образом, чтобы развивать те или иные навыки. Скажем, туристический маршрут по Боровскому району, направленный на развитие командной работы или эмоционального интеллекта.

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Сценарист семейного туризма

The profession appears before 2020

Сценарист семейного туризма—профессионал, формирующий комплексные программы для туристов, путешествующих семьями. Он учитывает возрастные психологические предпочтения, организуя динамичный досуг, где дети и взрослые могут как провести время вместе, так и отдохнуть друг от друга (а это не менее важно).

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Куратор осознанного экотуризма

The profession appears before 2020

Куратор осознанного экотуризма— специалист, создающий и внедряющий культуру посещения лесов и парков. В его компетенции входит создание маршрутов для экотуризма, планирование инфраструктуры (электричество, вода, места для раздельного сбора мусора), внедрение экологических практик, обучение туристов культуре поведения.

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Игрофикатор туристического опыта

The profession appears before 2020

Игрофикатор туристического опыта— специалист, создающий туристические игры на основе разных достопримечательностей, исторических фактов и местных специалитетов. Поскольку туристы все чаще ждут от путешествий необычного эмоционального опыта, конкурентные преимущества получит тот, кто сможет превратить экскурсию или мастер-класс в захватывающую игру.

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Коуч по межкультурной коммуникации для экскурсоводов

The profession appears before 2020

Коуч по межкультурной коммуникации для экскурсоводов— специалист, который учит гидов находить общий язык с представителями разных поколений и культур. Поскольку туристические группы будут все более разнообразными по составу (это касается и возраста, и национальности, и культурных кодов), востребованный экскурсовод должен быть очень гибким и владеть разными языками и стилями общения.

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Мобильный ветеринар

The profession appears before 2020

Мобильный ветеринар— ветеринар, который работает на аутсорсе и при необходимости выезжает в небольшие фермерские хозяйства или консультирует онлайн, дистанционно получая информацию о состоянии животных с датчиков биологической обратной связи.

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Проектировщик коботов

The profession appears before 2020

Проектировщик коботов— специалист, который проектирует системы, в которых человек работает в коллаборации с роботом. Его задача — «состыковать» возможности человека и машины и оптимально распределить между ними различные функции для решения производственных задач, а также обеспечить безопасность человека в присутствии робота. Варианты взаимодействия могут быть разными — например, робот может в основном работать сам, но останавливаться или ограничивать амплитуду движений, заметив поблизости человека. Или работать в непосредственном физическом контакте — например, если надо совершить очень точные и скоординированные действия (координация — преимущество человека) с очень тяжелым объектом (сила — преимущество робота).

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Тьютор для педагогов

The profession appears before 2020

Тьютор для педагогов — анализирует проблемы, с которыми сталкивается педагог в школе (в первую очередь в связи изменениями подхода к обучению), помогает разработать решения для кризисных ситуаций, транслирует новые педагогические техники/практики.

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Преподаватель цифровой этики и безопасности

The profession appears before 2020

Преподаватель цифровой этики и безопасности. Разрабатывает программы для обучения экологичному и осознанному поведению в социальных сетях, консультирует детей в проблемных ситуациях (например, шантаж или кибербуллинг).

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Консультант по воспитательным стратегиям для родителей

The profession appears before 2020

Консультант по воспитательным стратегиям для родителей — специалист, который анализирует модели поведения ребёнка и родителей внутри семьи, создает «буферную зону» между школой и родителем, разрабатывает и помогает реализовать семейную воспитательную и образовательную стратегию.

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Кросскультурный педагог

The profession appears before 2020

Кросскультурный педагог — специалист, который находит точки соприкосновения различных культур внутри одного класса, владеет техниками медиации и адаптации иноязычных детей. Для успешной работы такой специалист должен обладать одновременно знаниями и навыками психолога, модератора и антрополога.

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Аналитик таможенной безопасности

The profession appears before 2020

Аналитик таможенной безопасности. Традиционного таможенника с собакой заменит сканер, а данный специалист анализирует результаты проверки на сканере и принимает решение о том, что делать с небезопасным товаром.

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IT-экономист

The profession appears before 2020

IT-экономист— специалист, который занимается оценкой эффективности развертывания IT-инфраструктуры/IT-разработки в конкретном случае, рассматривает различные финансовые решения для использования IT (где купить «железо», разрабатывать программное обеспечение самим или отдавать на аутсорсинг), оценивает издержки в ходе всего жизненного цикла IT-продуктов.

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Expert for mitigating systemic environmental disasters

The profession appears before 2020

Engineer who deals with time-delayed disasters, which people become aware of gradually, e.g. pollution around large industrial centres, the Pacific plastic dump, the thawing permafrost, radioactive dumps, etc. The engineer is tasked with designing and implementing plans to mitigate such disasters and prevent them from happening again. Aside from the usual environmental problems, such as global warming and deforestation, new threats are emerging, which humankind became concerned with only recently. For example, a large garbage patch was discovered in the Pacific Ocean in 1997. Because of oceanic currents, an area, which, according to various estimates, takes up between 0.7 and 15 million square kilometres, is littered with over 100 million tons of garbage. Most of the garbage consists of fine pieces of plastic that may be toxic and are eaten by fish or jellyfish. To handle such types of threats, we need highly qualified specialists able to make decisions under uncertainty.

Integrated industrial security auditor

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist in assessing the state of security at an existing facility and monitoring all types of threats such as mechanical damage, fire, environmental threats, cyber attacks, etc.

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Space brand manager

The profession appears before 2020

Advisor and responsible person for filling a virtual world with cultural content connected with a particular area. Creates the image and legend of a location, and adds design, identity, news, tourist services, and various events. All this makes the area unique, attracting visitors and turning it into a competitive tourist destination. The job already exists, and will grow in relevance as time goes on. Accordingly, requirements for specialists in this field will increase as well.

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Individual tour director

The profession appears before 2020

Professional guide able to develop and personally conduct unique tours according to the requests of individual clients. In a way, the job already exists and will become mainstream as traditional travel operators disappear.

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Game practitioner

The profession appears before 2020

Organizer, creator of, and guide to, game universes in real and virtual spaces. Urban quests are now popular, from the Running City to games like Claustrophobia, designed for confined spaces. There are also alternate reality games (ARG), with very fuzzy boundaries between the real world and the game. Games like those will only spread in the future.

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Media policeman

The profession appears before 2020

The media policeman is a law enforcer in the media sphere. Identifies transgressions by monitoring media resources personally and/or using special software. In Russia, this function is partly performed by Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media) and the Safe Internet League. In the future, however, it will grow into a separate job due to increasing information abuse and cyber crime rates.

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Media software designer

The profession appears before 2020

This specialist works in cooperation with psychologists, linguists and engineers to create software tools for finding, processing and distributing information on the Internet (search engines, semantic analyzers, aggregators, robots, writing).

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Info stylist

The profession appears before 2020

Professional who selects information and a manner of presentation to match the requirements of a particular user. Today, the stream of content is offered to a user as a selection of recommended information products, based on geotargeting, the user’s search queries, or user interests which were specified in the user’s social network profile. This is done mostly externally, by an algorithm that someone created for their own purposes. In the future, people wishing to generate such a stream for themselves and by themselves will create demand for similar algorithms, which they will make themselves or order from relevant specialists.

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Content aggregator editor

The profession appears before 2020

Manages information channels and selects content matching users’ expectations by adjusting search engines, aggregators and processors of information. The profession already exists in digital media. However, demand for it will grow together with the expansion of individual mass media. Eventually, the specialty will turn into a versatile competency.

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Art appraiser

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist able to appraise new forms of artistic works consisting of heterogeneous elements and noted for their complexity and/or fragility (e.g. science art, street art or performance).

Personal aesthetic development tutor

The profession appears before 2020

This professional builds individual trajectories of interaction with works of art for the user.He/she possesses an excellent knowledge of the cultural environment and draws up an aesthetic development programmes in accordance with the tastes, needs and opportunities of the client, e.g.to track the development of various aspects of Gothic art from the Middle Ages to the present time, in the fields of architecture, design, literature, music, and cinema.

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Creative state trainer

The profession appears before 2020

Mind fitness expert engaged in helping art workers enter the flow state, as well as other states characterized by increased creativity. The trainer is also engaged in developing awareness, because one of the most important challenges for an artist is the continuous reflection on reality.

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Collective art supervisor

The profession appears before 2020

Sets up artistic teams for specific creative projects. These teams may include artists of various specializations, scientists, software developers, engineers, and professionals from other fields.

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State-private partnership specialist for the social sector

The profession appears before 2020

Helps contract the government’s functions in the social sector (e.g. building and premises cleaning, water supply and heating, energy saving, solid waste recycling, building and utilities repairs, municipal transport, kindergartens, etc.) to social entrepreneurs, who arrange the provision of these services in the form of state-private partnerships.

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Social conflict mediator

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist in assisting in the peaceful resolution of conflicts arising between social groups due to property-related, cultural, national, religious, and other reasons.

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Personal charity platform moderator

The profession appears before 2020

Compiles personal request files (e.g. children with cancer or lonely elderly people) and links people seeking help with charity givers, who provide aid in various forms (money, in-kind contributions, keeping company, etc.). For example, the popular blogger, doctor and philanthropist Elizaveta Glinka (aka Doctor Lisa) posts on her Livejournal reports of her own Fair Aid fund, as well as information about other projects and people in need of help.

Migrant adaptation specialist

The profession appears before 2020

Professional engaged in teaching national language and culture, including via online platforms. Russian language schools for migrants are already opening in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, including those for their children, functioning within ordinary schools. The government promised to open the first online school for foreigners in 2015.

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Social worker for disabled persons adaptation using internet technology

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist who helps people with disabilities lead a full life by training them in skills required for remote employment, helping them select a job, and organizing their work and leisure (e.g. by finding relevant online communities, communication platforms, training courses, etc.).

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Crowd sourcing expert for social issues

The profession appears before 2020

Manages a crowd sourcing platform to collect information on problems in families, households, districts, roads, parks, and other public spaces, etc., and relays such requests to government authorities or non-profit organizations, while tracking their execution. For example, Russia has had the Democrator initiative for several years now. The project is an electronic platform for communication between citizens and authorities, organizations, parties and social movements. The service is moderated by a team of professional lawyers helping users file official requests to various agencies and achieve results.

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Government authority communication platform moderator

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist in organizing online and offline dialogue between public activists and government officials responsible for particular areas (e.g. education, utilities, construction, pensions, etc.) in order to develop solutions together.

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Individual financial trajectory designer

The profession appears before 2020

Professional in calculating personal investment models based on projected income and expenses, providing recommendations for planning family and personal budgets, career development, etc. The job of personal financial advisor already exists on the Russian market, but, considering the fact that increasingly more specialists will work part-time and be able to run several concurrent projects (including in foreign countries), income sources may become more diversified, and professional advice will be needed more often.

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Online sales manager

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist who works in offline companies, develops Internet-based promotion mechanisms for products, organizesmarketing campaigns on the Internet, supports own online stores, or works with partners to improve service for customers (e.g. promptness of delivery). The specialty can already be considered developed in Russia, with 260 vacancies published in July 2014, according to Career.ru. Still, demand for the profession is expected to grow.

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Personal brand manager

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist engaged in shaping a personal image using social networks and other public platforms in accordance with the customer’s goals and requirements. Building a personal brand is an important aspect of modern business coaching. An image tailored to a specific target audience can help a person stand out among other specialists and become a leader of public opinion in his niche. This boosts demand for the service.

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Cross-cultural communication manager

The profession appears before 2020

Professional maintaining a company’s document flow in foreign languages, controlling key messages (e.g. in selecting marketing slogans), training employees in expressing their messages in foreign languages, as well as in cultural specifics in negotiations with foreign partners. Advises company management on doing business in foreign countries. The lack of specialists able to resolve translation difficulties has been the reason of unsuccessful transactions, as well as advertising campaign failures. For example, when translated into Chinese in the 1980s, KFC’s corporate slogan, Finger-lickin’ good, came out as We will bite off your fingers, which, obviously, did not help the American fast food chain gain popularity with the locals.

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Corporate anthropologist

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist engaged in studying the markets of a company’s innovative products using anthropological methods (e.g. overt observation), and enhancing connection between the company and its target audience. In the West, employment in the business domain has long been regarded as a logical development of an anthropologist’s career, ever since the consumption of products and services began to be studied in sociocultural and economic contexts. Relevant specialists are hired mostly by IT companies, including Intel and Nokia.

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Corporate venture fund portfolio manager

The profession appears before 2020

Professional who manages a company’s investments in startups created on the basis of the ideas of its employees and aimed at developing the company’s product line. Supports the growth of such startups, from conception to the production stage. Corporate venture funds constantly search for new promising solutions. For example, in 2011, Google Ventures launched a special programme for its employees: in exchange for information about viable startups, the company was prepared to pay a bonus of $10,000.

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User community moderator

The profession appears before 2020

Professional tasked with organizing online user communities, supporting the dialogue with company product designers to develop a product line, and maintaining their loyalty (e.g. arranging contests, etc.).

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Virtual lawyer

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist in remote legal support via the Internet, including advice on the statutory norms of the country in which a business is to operate (regardless of the lawyer’s country of operation).

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Environment auditor

The profession appears before 2020

Professional engaged in the audit of industrial facilities and providing recommendations on ways to reduce the environmental footprint through industrial upgrades or by changing operating practices and methods.This is a relevant and quite an old job existing in Russia since 1993.In 2005, the National Environmental Audit Chamber was established to carry out independent environmental audits, issue accreditations to environmental audit firms, and train environmental auditors.However, the practically non-existent legal framework and the non-transparent environmental policies of businesses do not encourage experience sharing between specialists and are holding back the sector’s development.Nevertheless, demand for these specialists is increasing.

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Time manager

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist in the efficient use and allocation of personal and team time.This specialist is mainly tasked with optimizing time allocation in order to absorb the emerging technological opportunities and needs of a person or a team.

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Crowd funding and crowd investing platform manager

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist organizing the operation of crowd funding platforms, performing a preliminary evaluation of projects to receive crowd funding, and resolving conflicts between investors and project owners. In Russia, the required set of skills has not yet developed into a new profession, while western managers, advisors and marketing experts specializing in crowd funding projects are already actively offering their services.

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Intellectual property appraiser

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist in determining the value of intangible assets, such as ideas, business models, inventions, tangible and social technologies, etc.The job already exists in Russia, with the demand for relevant professionals exceeding the supply.According to HeadHunter, there were only 2 resumes for 14 vacancies in July 2014.

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Personal profile security advisor

The profession appears before 2020

Advisor on the information security of Internet users.Compiles the current information image of a client based on all of the information about them available on the Internet.Audits the client’s activities on the Internet for weak spots, confidentiality and general security. At the client’s request, eliminates weak spots, edits (or deletes) the user’s information on the Internet, and shapes the information image of the client.

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Cyber detective

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist investigating cyber crimes.Specialist in criminal science, investigation (modern detective), search (including active search through officially sanctioned cyber attacks against suspects) and processing of information on the Internet (data analyst with programing skills).Cyber detectives have, in fact, been around for some time now, and demand for them will only grow in the future.

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IT auditor

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist in software development. Audits complex IT systems processing data and making decisions based on such data. Errors in, or breach of, such systems pose high risks.Provides audits of such systems for the security of their software, including the process of its development and qualifications of the developer.

IT preacher

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist in communications with end users of IT products and promotion of new solutions to groups having a conservative attitude towards advanced technology.The IT preacher will teach people to use new software and services to reduce the digital gap.Activities aimed at training people in “digital literacy” are offered today, usually on a voluntary basis, but this will become a real job in the near future.

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Interface designer

The profession appears before 2020

This professional develops user-friendly, adaptive and safe interfaces for equipment, devices and software of various levels.He/she is highly competent in usability (creating interfaces most comfortable for the user).The interface designer is an existing and popular job, with 2,015 vacancies published in July 2014, according to HeadHunter.However, the growing intensity of human-machine interaction will require greater numbers of such specialists, while their skills will need further development to be able to achieve new objectives.

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Ecopreacher

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist tasked with developing and conducting educational and instructional programmes for children and adults, teaching them to behave in a way to reduce impact on the environment (no excessive consumption, separate waste disposal, environmentally conscious lifestyle, etc.), as well as programmes for industrial enterprises on more eco-friendly industrial practices.

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Project training organizer

The profession appears before 2020

Professional in the development and organization of training programmes focused on the preparation and implementation of projects in the real sector of the economy, with the study of theoretical material as a mandatory support activity.

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Tutor

The profession appears before 2020

Educator engaged in supporting individual development of students within disciplines of an educational programme, elaborating individual tasks, and providing career guidance.

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Game master

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist in developing and organizing educational games (business, history, science fiction, etc.) and game support with the use of simulators. The educational potential of games has been studied in developed countries since the 2000’s (in 2001, MIT and Microsoft launched the joint project Games-to-Teach), while lately, gamification (application of game mechanics in non-game processes) has become a noticeable trend. In 2013, the educational portal Coursera published the course Computer Games and Education, and the University of New York even offers a master’s programme for game masters. In Russia, the development of educational games is promoted by the Russian Association for Games in Education.

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Moderator

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist who organizes group discussions of an issue or collective creative activities to help students learn new material during their practical activities. The set of skill required in social science, psychology and marketing is becoming sought after in education. For example, in 2014, the U.S.-based Corporate Education Group, specializing in consulting and corporate training, posted a vacancy for a virtual course moderator, while ATIM worked out a series of training courses for mentors and moderators, including a course in online commerce. Moderators are actively engaged in the Russian educational sphere, e.g. most educational programmes of the SKOLKOVO Moscow School of Management involve moderators.

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Educational online platform coordinator

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist in an educational institution or independent educational project with competences in online teaching, supporting the development of online courses on particular subjects or disciplines; organizing and promoting specific courses or standard academic pathways.The coordinator moderates communication between teachers and students within courses or platforms and defines requirements for platform improvements.Some Russian universities have established entire divisions in charge of these functions.For example, MIPT has the Laboratory of Innovative Educational Techniques, and the Higher School of Economics has the Educational Environment Development Centre.This has allowed the universities to develop their own online courses for the Coursera platform.Russian online platforms, such as Universarium and Eduson, are also developing.

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Transmedia product designer

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist engaged in designing content (characters, stories, conflicts, problems, educational content) and services for several mass media at once (TV programmes, games, etc.). He/she should be able to build a coherent system of interaction between different formats (consistency of character images and interrelation/consistency of stories involving them). The job will require unconventional thinking. For example, in one American school, students working on an art project encoded the text of a poem as software code, imported it into the Scratch training animation program, and then into LEGO Mindstorms EV3, a robot programming language. The interactive children’s series Inanimate Alice uses text, video, images and interactive games.

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Children’s psychological security specialist

The profession appears before 2020

Professional tasked with testing various children’s products and services (toys, games, cartoons, clothes, furniture, etc.) for psychological threats and potential harm for children’s health.Based on the tests, the specialist provides recommendations on corrections to be made to the product, or its possible applications.

Children’s R&D manager

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist who organizes children’s creative activities to invent new children’s products, and adapts their ideas for mass production.Sometimes, children manage to invent with more interesting designer solutions than a team of adult professionals.For example, in 2007, the entrepreneurial artist Wendy Tsao from Vancouver started making stuffed animals based on her four year old son’s drawings.The hobby turned profitable, and she opened her own business called Child’s Own Studio.Now parents from different countries order Wendy’s plush toys based on their children’s pictures.The famous artist Damien Hurst admitted in 2014 to have used his own childhood ideas in his art.

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Healthy clothes expert

The profession appears before 2020

Controls clothes manufacturing in terms of safety and health benefits (heat insulation, ventilation, etc.) and designs medical clothes, such as fabrics treated with a disinfectant.

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Designer of neural interfaces for robot control

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist who designs control systems for industrial and combat robots based on neural interfaces, enabling control by distributed teams as well as individual operators.

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Children’s robot designer

The profession appears before 2020

Professional involved in designing children’s toys, games, gadgets and various mechanical commodities based on programmable robots, taking into account the mental and physiological specifics of young age.

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Ergonomic designer

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist tasked with designing robotic systems taking into account the user’s ergonomic requirements, based on their physical and mental abilities.

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Distributed mining team coordinator

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist ensuring coordinated interaction between people located at the site and remote team members. His main task is to set tactical goals, arrange communication amongst the team, and resolve differences and conflicts.

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Intermodal hub designer

The profession appears before 2020

Designs intermodal hubs (systems for changing between modes of transportation), calculates their cargo and passenger capacity, wear resistance, and evaluates their growth potential. Such specialists already exist in Russia as well as in the West, however, the increasing load on the transport infrastructure and growth of passenger and cargo traffic will boost demand for them significantly in the future.

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Cross-logistics operator

The profession appears before 2020

Professional with a competence in selecting the best methods of cargo and passenger delivery using different modes of transportation; control and adjustment of traffic throughout a multimodal network; monitoring of the passability of transportation hubs; redistribution of traffic flows in transportation networks.

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Electricity consumer rights expert

The profession appears before 2020

Checks power grids for compliance with safety, efficiency and other user requirements, providing professional advice on energy saving legislation. Europe and the USA have a carefully elaborated system of electricity consumer rights protection, with many experts on the subject, who commonly provide advice on how to pay less for power. The service will become sought-after in Russia as well, not least of all to make sense of all the complex benefit and subsidy schemes, which are the subject of complaints even from professionals.

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Power marketing expert

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist with a good knowledge of the Russian and global power market, dealing with power sales. Need for the profession is caused by the increasing competition on the power market and emergence of a large number of private businesses. There is no demand for it in Russia as of now, but issues of micro generation and distributed grids will become highly topical very soon. In the west, however, the specialty of power marketing expert is quite developed.

Online doctor

The profession appears before 2020

Highly qualified diagnostician, familiar with information and communication technologies, able to determine a diagnosis online. Focused on provisional diagnosis and prevention. These specialists may be involved in remote mass preventive medical check-ups, or provide support for data centers processing information from personal diagnostic devices and health portals. Online medical services are already a reality, and very soon doctors will be able to receive various data about a patient’s health from wearable gadgets. Remote diagnoses will become more accurate, and instead of unconvincing online consultations conducted in a Q&A form, we will receive top-class services provided by well-trained specialists.

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Old-age health consultant

The profession appears before 2020

Sociomedical expert developing balanced solutions for problems of the aging population. This specialist will help you adjust your lifestyle or choose a suitable diet and physical training. Growing life expectancy is increasing pressure on healthcare institutions, as retired persons require medical attention more often. Any government would benefit from the country’s senior citizens maintaining healthy eating habits and a careful lifestyle.

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Medical institution life cycledesigner

The profession appears before 2020

Professional engaged in developing the life cycle of a medical institution or managing the same, from design to winding up. Today, hospitals are not just institutions providing a certain range of medical services. Activities related to R&D, education, training and mastering new technologies is playing an increasingly important part in the development of medical institutions. Managing sophisticated systems like these will definitely require proper specialists.

Park ecologist

The profession appears before 2020

Professional in charge of monitoring and analyzing the environmental condition of public spaces (parks, boulevards, squares, alleys, etc.), development and implementation of solutions for landscaping, populating territories with animals and insects, and other measures to maintain environmental balance in urban green areas. For example, Royal Parks, a London-based company in charge of eight city parks, employs its own staff of environmental specialists responsible for 418 rare species of plants, animals and mushrooms. On the other hand, the specialty may be regarded as a new version of the long-existing trade of urban ecologist, which appeared as early as in the 1970s.

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Accessible environment designer

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist in the development of infrastructural solutions for children, senior persons and disabled persons around properties (e.g. playgrounds, elevators for the disabled, signboards for people with impaired eyesight, ramps, recreational space, etc.).

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Foreman watcher

The profession appears before 2020

Construction specialist using digital structure designs. Can use image recognition systems to evaluate the construction progress and adjust the process based on the data analysis.

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Medical marketing expert

The profession appears before 2020

Specialist researching markets in pharmacology, medical services and medical equipment; develops marketing policies for companies and research centers. Another job that has existed in the world for a long time but is relatively new in Russia due to the Russian healthcare system being state-owned and state-managed until relatively recently. There are not a lot of jobs in this specialty. According to HeadHunter, there were only 6 vacancies in July 2014, but the job should be on offer in the future.

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