У статті проаналізовано проблему посилення конкурентоспроможності національного ринку праці, який має стати більш привабливим для кваліфікованої робочої сили та інвесторів. З’ясовано, що основними факторами втрати ринком праці України конкурентних переваг у передвоєнні десятиліття є низька оплата праці, недостатня якість робочих місць, малі розміри фінансування науково-дослідних робіт, скорочення обсягів капітальних інвестицій, особливо у виробничий сектор економіки. Окреслено роль ринку праці у подоланні руйнівних наслідків російської воєнної агресії та пандемії Covid-19. Основними напрямами посилення його конкурентоспроможності є модернізація державної політики зайнятості, зокрема поліпшення координації з інвестиційною, грошово-кредитною, податковою політиками, політикою доходів; посилення захисту соціально-економічних прав найманих працівників; професійна і соціально-гуманітарна підготовка робочої сили.

The relevance of the article is due to the need to determine the conceptual directions for strengthening the competitiveness of the national labor market in the context of intensifying international processes in the area of competition for highly qualified workers and investments in the creation of new modern workplaces. The purpose of the article is to develop the theoretical and conceptual foundations of ensuring the competitiveness of the national labor market. This problem is considered from the position of strategic importance for Ukraine, as it reflects the key societal socio-economic processes and forms the prerequisites for achieving the goals of sustainable development. As a result of the analysis of the state policy of Ukraine to overcome the negative consequences of the pandemic for the employment sector and the labor market, its ineffective practices were noted – the coronavirus restrictions were implemented against the background of the complete withdrawal of the state from real financial assistance and effective measures to support the employment sector. The main reasons that hold back the attraction of foreign investments for the creation of new jobs are indicated such as the disproportion of demand and supply; destructiveness of social dialogue processes in the labor market; low quality of labor legislation, low employment rates and a huge volume of the shadow segment. Recommendations have been developed on the use of practical tools for the development of the competitive advantages of Ukraine’s labor market, namely, strengthening the professional and qualification qualities of the workforce, modernizing the state policy of attracting capital investments, overcoming the shadow segment of the labor market, improving the legal and regulatory regulation of remote work, developing digital employment platforms, introducing progressive foreign practices of regulating the labor market in conditions of pandemic restrictions.

The research satisfies the current world trends in future jobs, where team work is considered as one of the significant soft skills till 2030. The purpose of the paper is to identify the key team roles, which have leading impact on social competence of young scientists in Ukraine. The novelty of the research is represented by the created theoretical model of social competence and its connection with team work. The proposed model includes such blocks as: approaches to definition, structural elements in combination with evaluation criteria, types of an individual’s social competence, functions and levels of social competence as well as approaches to social competence research. The object of the scientific research is the process of using team work tools in social competence management of young scientists’ teams. The research methodology includes such methods: comparative analysis, critical analysis, descriptive analysis, factor analysis, and cluster analysis. The research is based on the results of the special direction of the mass sociological survey of young scientists in Ukraine. The limitations of the research are that the period of gathering data covers 2020 year before the war in Ukraine. The Belbin’s approach to team roles was taken for researching the current state of team work as an important part of social competence of young scientists in Ukraine. The obtained results confirmed quite equal distribution of managers’ types in the teams of young scientists. The most important team roles are Implementer and Team-worker that corresponds to the young scientists’ basic functions. But, such team roles as Monitor-evaluator, Resource Investigator and Plant require better development. The practical value of the research for the young scientists’ community is in the use of the levels of team-role orientations in building the young scientists project teams and developing their social competence, which gives the opportunity to improve the education and training of young scientists. The possible directions of the research development are studying of the other approaches to team management, stress management and emotional well-being of young scientists. The possible ways of developing team work in particular and social competence in general in the process of education and training of young scientists are the implementation of special modules of soft skills development.

Introduction. The article analyzes social security components and its interaction with social cohesion. Approaches to understanding social security and its elements are considered. Key approaches to understanding social cohesion and its components are presented. The main indicators of social security and social cohesion and their impact on society's current social development are investigated. Directions for further development of their effective interaction with the aim of forming high-quality social capital are identified. Aim. The aim of the article is to study key features of the formation of social security and cohesion, taking into account current trends in society. Method (methodology). The methodological foundation of the study is based on scientific works on the current state and peculiarities of the formation of social security and cohesion. Dialectical, systemic, and synergistic approaches were used at all stages of the study along with the methods of general scientific cognition: comparison, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction. Results. Globalization processes and current crises in the world, pandemic challenges and war in our country, the socio-economic problem of increased export orientation, dependence on energy imports and shortcomings in domestic market development significantly raise the issue of social security at all levels. The decline in the standard of living and quality of life, imperfect reforms in Ukraine's economy, social deformations and property inequalities that lead to aggravation of social confrontations in society require analysis and assessment of the level of social security in order to improve the population's welfare. In modern conditions, there are different approaches to defining social security and social cohesion. Moreover, the criteria and indicators of social security in the European Union have been considered and improved for quite some time. One of the possible indicators of the effectiveness of social security can be the Social Progress Index, which is an integral indicator and is determined by a number of parameters and criteria. The goal of further research is to structure the components of social security and clearly define the role of social cohesion in it.