In the context of growing uncertainty in the implementation of systematic reforms and transformations in the field of education, the problem of attracting young teachers to school is becoming urgent. The main idea of the article is the authors' statement that various formats of modern mentoring in the pedagogical environment are promising for securing young teachers in the profession. Mentoring contributes to the translation of the value-semantic attitudes of the teaching profession from experienced teachers to young people, affects the adaptation of university graduates in an educational organization. The purpose of the study is, based on the study of foreign and domestic theory and practice of education, to characterize the main trends in the development of mentoring activities. Methodology, methods and techniques are as follows. A comparative analysis of foreign and domestic literature on positive mentoring practices, a survey of teachers are aimed to identify attitudes to the problem of mentoring, the forms of its organization. The results are systematized main approaches that exist in European countries to the development of mentoring programs. There are analyzed data of the TALIS-2013 survey on mentoring in Germany, Finland, Hungary, Portugal, Montenegro, etc. We characterized the conditions that affect the effective development of mentoring activities: state participation in the development of mentoring programs; the presence of a system of moral incentives for mentors; training of mentors in the system of additional education; monitoring and self-assessment of educational deficits and their replenishment in the mentoring dyad; stable internal motivation for mentoring activities.