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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

The most important resource in forming human capital is, certainly, the youth, whose mission is not just to reproduce, but also to develop, improve, and update the existing social system. In the article authors are trying to find answers to the following questions: How do contemporary youth see their future? How does this image correlate with the socio-economic challenges facing contemporary society? What help do young people need in the course of professional self-determination? The answers to these questions should be taken into account when developing strategies for the effective use of the human capital of today’s youth. Based on the results obtained, the authors conclude that it is necessary to typologize behavioral strategy models in the future professional self-determination of young people.

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The paper attempts to deal with professional self-determination of young people through an acmeological approach. Acmeology is a science that studies patterns and features of human development at the stage of maturity, as well as ways and means of reaching the pinnacle in this development. Since A.A. Derkach defines acmeological approach as a process of formation and consolidation of a real need for selfknowledge, self-development and self-realization in the human consciousness, it is quite possible to consider professional self-determination from an acmeological standpoint. The paper analyzes objective and subjective impacts that hinder a person to reach the "acme" and compares them with the process of achieving professional self-determination. The paper provides a novel rationale to the possibility of extrapolating the acmeological approach, its basic concepts and provisions to the process of professional self-determination. The authors show that considering professional self-determination in the context of life track, life philosophy, life script, life-purpose values and professional "acme" enables a holistic approach to be applied in a single set of all interdependent impacts and links. The authors describe continuous, discrete, divergent and ascending tracks of professional self-determination, correlate acmeological invariants of professionalism with soft and general professional competencies necessary for a professional to succeed in the digital economy. The results of sociological research conducted by the authors confirm the stated theoretical propositions.