Tracing and Problems of Professional Self-determination of Modern Youth

: The article is devoted to the problems of professional self-determination of Russian youth. The relevance of the topic is justified by the results of tracing, monitoring of professional trajectories of graduates of educational institutions, as well as indicators of the modern labor market, unemployment and professional migration. The object of this research is the criteria for choosing educational and professional trajectories in the total volume of social strategies of young people. The article presents the results of sociological surveys "Educational and professional orientations of young people of the Irkutsk region" conducted by the authors in the period 2007-2020. The authors indicate the conditionality of the strategies of youth behavior in the labor market on objective economic factors and the state of the regional labor market, as well as on subjective socio-psychological factors, maturity / infantilism of the younger generation, on their readiness for independent decisions, for professional self-determination. The authors substantiate the introduction of a system for monitoring the involvement of young people in labor relations in order to solve the problems of staffing support, preserving the economic, demographic, and socio-cultural health of the regions, which was significantly actualized in the new post-pandemic reality that has changed the nature of social and labor relations.