The article examines the requirements of modern production for workers, analyzes the problem and potential of advancement in education. The author presents for discussion the results of a study involving representatives of employers and workers trained under the advanced training programs. In this regard, ranked lists of professionally significant personal qualities and attributes preferred and expected by respondents from among employers’ representatives and from among workers are presented.

The article examines the problem of advanced training of workers, its impact on the formation of human capital, professional and personal quality of the modern worker. The latter is interpreted in terms of internal and external systemic and social quality as a phenomenon of qualityology - the triune science of the quality of education. The issues of the formation and assessment of educational results and social effects are actualized in relation to the system of advanced professional training of workers.