There is regarded the public policy on the issues of employment and job placement of young people in the 90s of the XX - beginning of the XXI centuries. In this period the situation on the labour market changed, which required the development and realization of a special system of measures at the state level on the issues of employment and job placement of the given category of population.

There is analyzed the work of Komsomol in the perestroika period in the USSR. There is made the conclusion that in the mentioned period it was necessary to convert Komsomol into a qualitatively new level of working with the youth. Meanwhile, most of the Komsomol organizations could not determine their place and role in solution of public problems.