PROBLEM OF EMPOYMENT AS RESTRICTION OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR TOWN AND RURAL YOUTH
The article regards the problem of employment which is faced by graduates of professional institutions and the youth in general; the attention is paid to the regional experience of the problems’ solution connected with the employment of youth. Within the frameworks of our research the opportunities of young people are investigated – 
 of the representatives of town and rural society. The author analyzes official data on unemployment problem, and also the results of own social studies. The results of the questionnaire poll, the survey of local sociologists’ investigations and also our own observations all allow us to speak that the demographic situation determines the situation for shortening in number of active rural population of employable age. A decrease in number of young people is observed in the structure of employment patterns for rural population. Problems with employment are much more vivid in the rural than in the urban area. There is an increase in number of unemployed, the lack of increase in the number of vacancies, because there is no development of agricultural productivity. One of the main tasks of policy in the employment field of young people is the creation of conditions to optimize the employment processes for graduates of educational institutions, development of programmes to support rural youth.