Life strategies of young people are stable, typical ways and forms of their life activity, aimed at satisfying needs, achieving goals and vital meanings through the transformation of the external environment and the personality of the subject himself. The features of their design and implementation in modern conditions are, such as a rigid orientation to achieve life success, individualism, internal contradictions, a lack of reflexivity. Despite the fact that the design and implementation of life strategies of young people can be most successfully implemented only through the use of social technologies, modern young people do not have enough skills in social engineering. The increasing level of competence in the field of social and engineering activities, which will contribute to successful life building, presupposes the formation of a complex of abilities in young people. Among these abilities, there is an analysis of the life situation and the identification of life problems; self-esteem; prediction of the evolution of the life situation; definition of life goals, their decomposition; building a model of everyday behavior; protection of their own interests; a search for optimal solutions in case of participation in conflicts.