Matching and Non-Matching Skills: Assessment and Searching for Ways to Balance

At the end of the previous century most world countries faced serious complex problems concerning of mismatching skills and jobs which were regarded as the crisis of educa- tional systems. The main cause of this crisis was intensification of contradictions between qualitative changes occurred in global society on the account of increase in demand for knowledge and intensification of its spreading and evolutionary and extensive education development. The problem of matching skills and jobs has become of actual importance since the mo- ment when the needs for labor force in developed countries increased. Employers called the need for skills as well as the need for employees eager to upgrade their knowledge constantly, get new skills and crucially new competences allowing them both to fulfill their duties successfully and create new workplaces independently. Nowadays the attention of scientific community is draws to estimation of matching skills and jobs as well as over- coming imbalances existing at the labor market. The article does a research into impact of skills anticipating on subjects of economy’s behavior and economy in general. Activities of workplace’s overeducation and undereducation in some European countries and Ukraine are analysed, the best practice of overcoming such imbalances is investigated.