Author 1:

Name & Surname: Shepel A. V.
Company: Kirovsk Division, PhosAgro AG LLC (Kirovsk, Russia)
Work Position: Director for Personnel and Social Policy Issues
Contacts: e-mail: Ashepel@phosagro.ru

Author 2:

Name & Surname: Sepp L. V.
Company: Murmansk Regional Public Organization for Children and Young People “New Horizons” (Kirovsk, Russia)
Work Position: Apatit’s Young Personnel Project Manager
Scientific Degree: Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences

PhosAgro incessantly seeks out resources for optimization and effectivization of production. Particular attention is paid to the growth and development of personnel. Skilled and qualified staffing support of a company implicates finding and holding employees of no mean abilities, and also forming external personnel reserves. The PhosAgro-Classes Specialized Education Program aims to handle this problem. The project goal is to make provisions for influx of highly educated and professionally trained young people, by means of improvement of education quality, motivated occupational guidance, close support of university education, engagement in practical training and probation. PhosAgro, in its turn, lends assistance to tutoring in terms of information and material-and-technical resources, or excursions directly to mines and processing plants that extract and process apatite-nepheline ore in the Kirovsk-Apatity area. PhosAgro experts participate in many activities of the course on occupational guidance and accommodation of school-children. The regular monitoring and the material incentives of the vocational-oriented education course trainees yet more encourages pursuit of learning and development.

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