Youth Practice Project as an object of structural modeling

Abstract

Object: Active measures to promote youth employment are one of the topical areas of state regulation of the labor market in many countries around the world. The purpose of the study is to identify objective and subjective factors that influence the result of the Youth Practice Project of the state program for the development of productive employment and small business to develop recommendations for its improvement.
Methods: We have applied sociological survey methods with subsequent processing of the results by statistical methods and in the PLS-PM program, which allow us to build a structural model describing the relationship between the dependent variables Y and independent variables X based on the partial least squares method. The method allows evaluating complex models of causality with hidden variables that are significant but not observable (for example, motivation, behavioral attitude, etc.). The sociological survey involved 184 project graduates living in cities and regions, after which 1-1.5 years have passed from the project, which is consistent with the requirement for the sustainability of the result.
Findings: The objective parameters of the process in the project have a significant impact on the stability of its final result, and the dependence on subjective factors is statistically insignificant. Passive motivation, when optimizing the parameters of the project process, bringing the workplace and the functionality on it closer to the specialty of the diploma, can change to a more active one and the applicant’s assessment of the results to a positive one.
Conclusions: Employment centers need to pay special attention to the duration of the project and apply an individual approach to the applicant, considering the potential of his personality using modern methods of diagnosing internal competencies.