Abstract:

The professional identification of Russia youngers today is largely determined not only by the desire of young people to get one or another profession, but also by their desire to get a professional education that will enable them to receive a higher level of income in the future.
That means that the process of professional orientation and professional identification of youth might be managed by the State Educational Policy. The purpose of this management process is the formation of an effective, competitive labor force that allows to reduce the structural unemployment on national labor market.
The data of the research is the official statistics, as well as the results of all-Russian author's monitoring research for the period 2001-2017. The research, that we got, show that the higher education attitudes of Russian youngers, have changed a lot.
We use the modeling approach to define the features of the modern sector of Higher Education. The social and economical modeling of the higher education system can reveal the main correlation factors of younger’s demand for the higher education programs what will help us to find out the main streams of further professions, training directions, educational technologies development.
The results also will allow us to determine the directions for the further development of the system of higher professional education in Russia, to identify competitive areas of education, training areas, and training technologies.

Keywords:

Professional orientation, professional identification, higher professional education, youth, labor, management approach.