Urgent problems of employment and promotion of competitiveness for discharged military personnel in Ukraine

Abstract

The article is devoted to the investigation of urgent problems concerning the employment and promotion of competitiveness for discharged military personnel in Ukraine. According to the results of sociological survey conducted by means of the author's tools, it is determined that significant number of respondents are characterized by recognition of risks of non-employment after active service expiration, lack of awareness of existing rights and guarantees in the labor market, low efficiency of public services in the sphere of employment and adaptation. It is determined that increase of competitiveness in Ukraine labor market for discharged military personnel requires modernization of technologies of state institutions activity related to the employment of the investigated category of citizens, search of additional funding sources, adaptation of discharged military personnel, providing them with free legal services on employment, active cooperation of the employment service with educational institutions, employers and other labor market entities, etc. The structural analysis of employment services in Ukraine, the United States and the Kingdom of Norway aimed at the improvement of discharged military personnel employment and increase of their competitiveness in the labor market of Ukraine, showed the need to create the department of social protection and employment of military personnel in the State Employment Service of Ukraine and to provide this department with the following functions: social adaptation, training and retraining in nondefense occupations and employment of discharged military personnel increasing competitiveness in the labor market of Ukraine and providing the opportunity for fast readjustment to civil life. This department will also provide better employment service work with discharged military personnel and reduce the risk of their unemployment, as well as decrease the percentage of unemployed in the labor market of Ukraine. The analysis showed that it is necessary to provide new functions to the State Employment Service in order to improve the work with job hunters, change the required control functions for the functions of employment assistance.