Career guidance for the unemployed: problems and new approaches

The article considers the problems of career guidance for unemployed citizens, the reasons for their difficulties in choosing a profession and ways of adaptation to the modern labor market. The purpose of the article is to identify the main problems of unemployment in the modern labor market and substantiate the relevance of introducing modern methods of career guidance as the most effective tools for professional reorientation of unemployed citizens. The authors provide a detailed analysis of the main approaches, modern tools for career guidance for the unemployed, the goals and areas of activity of the implemented national projects on career guidance, employment centers and employers to reduce unemployment, reorientation and training of the population. The article notes the existence of a contradiction between the training of personnel in institutions of higher and secondary vocational education and their demand in the real sector of the labor market based on the percentage of unemployed youth with different levels of education over the past two years. The specifics of career guidance for unemployed citizens are disclosed and modern methods of career guidance work are analyzed.

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