Knowledge is not simply another commodity.

         On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up.

It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion

Daniel J. Boorstin

 Every young person faces a problem of choosing a career and finding a suitable job. They try to solve these tasks as quick as possible: to get a prestigious well-paid job and a prospect of further career growth. Youth is the time of optimism. One is full of energy and desire to realize his aims and ideals. Even the most difficult types of professional activity are accessible in youth. It is the very time for self-realization. The distinctive features of young people are purposefulness, seriousness, independence of opinion and estimations. The most urgent thing for any young person at that time is to provide material sufficiency in the future and quick advancement through social and career staircase.

Furthermore, youth is the time for mastering in the chosen profession, defining your attitude to the social life and your own role in it. As in any time, today young people have different life destinations. Dynamics of value orientations depends on various external factors, and very often young people have no idea how to choose the right way of living. Every young person has to make an extremely stressful decision, to choose his or her own career. Choosing a career is a challenging task. It is all about finding the perfect match between your personality, interests, and skills.

 In addition, success and development of the modern industry and new technologies, tourism and service spheres suppose a good command of foreign languages. They aspire to succeed and make a good career, which requires good knowledge of languages and experience. So, they try to get wider knowledge and experience from different sources such as Internet, books, newspapers, magazines and, of course, from disputes with wiser and older people. Nowadays the source of success besides the basic education is the knowledge of languages. When Western and Eastern companies came to the Russian market, the necessity of workers knowing foreign languages increases. An employer estimates not only professional qualities of an employee, but also his ability to use foreign language, especially English, in his professional activity. Russian labour market needs the people who understand other nations’ mentality, habits and features of conducting business with them.                    

    It’s a usual practice that foreign companies conferences, correspondences are held in the language of the corporation. So, the knowledge of languages becomes the basic skill, as well as the ability to work with a computer. Companies try to refer from the service of interpreters which are usually necessary only when there is a necessity in rare languages. Therefore, nowadays the main roles are played by the people knowing several languages. Language skills are important for administrative and secretary positions, and also for technical specialists and managers, and it touches those spheres where Russia goes into the international sphere where the knowledge of international standards is necessary, for example, in pharmaceutics, medical equipment, trade, logistics, book-keeping and high- technology industries.

 But on the other hand, youth is the time when complete independence has not reached yet. Some young people still do not know which career to choose. Even after finishing a secondary school, very often young people have to waste time deciding whether to study at some high education institution or to look for a job. For young fellows it is a more difficult decision because some of them don’t want to be called-up to the Army, that’s why they enter any institute or university just not to become soldiers. Sometimes young people choose a career they seem to be interested in, only after some time they realize that this occupation is not their cup of tea. So, they have to leave the university. Modern young people have not ripened for planning their living ways. Today the term ‘career’ is washed out. Any Russian  wants to make a career. But not all of them think about the meaning of this modern word. What does it mean? To became a professional? Or a manager? It is impossible for everybody to formulate this term.  Not all the people can became company presidents .  Most of the students want to be top managers. Some of them reach this aim, but others have to forget about their pride and really estimate their opportunities to understand what they should begin with.  The reason of overpriced prides is in the informing field. Our country now is ‘thrown’ into the career. Because of race after money students understand that the obvious way to earn is to become a manager and there is no other way. According to the opinion poll, the most popular profession among the 11^th form students is a profession of a layer. The main criteria of choosing are high payment and interest to this kind of activity. The money matter is more significant for school graduates. For the majority of pupils higher education is an opportunity to get prestigious and well-paid job. A job is considered to be the way to reach higher social status and the opportunity to realize creative potential, abilities and professional skill. School graduates, who prefer to work and not to enter the university, come across some difficulties having no certain purpose or finding a suitable place to work because of absence of the experience. The problem of self-presentation becomes strained because of absence of experience, low self-confidence. Great difficulty is to earn money for living, to aim material independence from parents. If the job is found, they should adapt to the working place and new requirements, to obtain practical abilities,  to join in the adults’ society  - all these changes may be quite arduous for girls and boys.

 Consequently, the problem of choosing the right job is very widespread among young people nowadays and they should think thoroughly before making any decision. Education is a necessary springboard for a successful advancement in this life. Nowadays the situation in the sphere of employment put young people in difficult conditions. Before the distributing system guaranteed to graduates employment according to their specialities, but now the distribution is held in limited scale, and young people turned out in hard competition with experienced  ones. As young people are very creative, they bear plenty of fresh ideas to the "team” they are working in. For example, when my friend was hired as a software developer, he surprised everybody with his energy, a bunch of new and fresh ideas about what could be done to improve the process. He was the youngest person in the team but everybody listened to him and it was like a fresh air, an impulse, which made everyone work harder.