PROBLEMS OF CONSULTING ON YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The relevance is due to the acute need of society for the development of Youth Entrepreneurship as a priority direction of civilizational progress in economically developed countries of the world and an important way to increase the level of employment of the population, which requires recognition and consideration by legislators of the significance of this phenomenon, as well as involvement of young citizens of Ukraine in the processes of consideration and decision-making. This relevance will be especially evident in the post-war period, when the revival of the Ukrainian economy and society will require the creation of thousands of new jobs.

Objective: to study the state of development of the problem of consulting on Youth Entrepreneurship, which requires urgent solutions in the field of vocational (vocational and technical) education.

Methods: general theoretical methods of analysis and synthesis of scientific works, generalization of worldview positions and interpretive options for understanding the essence of Youth Entrepreneurship counselling; theoretical analysis, comparison and generalization of conceptual views on the problem under study.

Results: the main problems of advising applicants for Vocational Education on Youth Entrepreneurship are identified and characterized: there is no orientation of teachers and masters of industrial training, and therefore students, to the conditions of a modern market economy, which are dynamically changing; lack of knowledge of teachers and applicants for Vocational Education of non-economic specialties on the issues of assessment and management of market processes under the conditions when continuous and quite significant changes in technologies, sales markets and needs of future young entrepreneurs have become commonplace, and organizers – beginners of small and medium-sized businesses, trying to ensure their competitiveness, are forced to respond to this using the limited resources that they have; imperfection of the procedure for the implementation of psychological counselling on Youth Entrepreneurship, which provides, first of all, the analysis of specific situations that arise in the course of entrepreneurial, business activities, and providing timely assistance to the future entrepreneur in making the most adequate decisions.

Conclusions: it is established that representatives of State Institutions and societies of developed countries of the world as a whole show a significant interest in the development of Youth Entrepreneurship; at the same time, it is proved that in the conditions of dynamic development of the market economy, there is a lack of orientation of subjects of the educational process to the realities of economic life; improvement requires awareness of teachers and applicants of Vocational Education of non-economic specialties in the assessment and management of market processes; the lack of clear procedures and methods of consulting on Youth Entrepreneurship of subjects of educational processes of Vocational Education Institutions requires scientific research at the theoretical-methodological and conceptual-methodological levels; it is argued that the purposeful and scientifically based organization of consulting on Youth Entrepreneurship will contribute to solving the problems highlighted in the article, establishing Youth Entrepreneurship as one of the priority tasks of reviving the country's economy in the post-war period and its modernization in accordance with the requirements of the European Union.