. In our paper we explore the development of labor market in Novosibirsk, a region of Russia’s Siberian Federal Okrug, during the unprecedented
events of 2020. In this, we rely on digital representation of the market, collecting
the data from several online sources. These are the three popular Russian online
job-related portals that publish vacancy and resume ads: HeadHunter,
ZarplataRu and TrudVsem. We devise the joint taxonomy for the three somehow
discordant portals to better cover the regional specifics and reveal the balance between workforce demand and supply in various industries in 2017-2020. The results of our analysis suggest while the supply, as manifested in resume ads, had
short-term flexibility, no remarkable changes were noted in the demand. However, vacancies better reflect the situation in the labor market, even though the
wages they propose were only 77.1% of the official wages for the region. The
discovered lack of correlation between the numbers of the ads and the wages in
the ads suggests that online recruitment is not competitive. Also, at least in the
considered region, the recruitment through job-related portals largely involves
straightforward and immediate hiring for less qualified and lower paid positions.