State management of the career guidance system for senior teenagers as an urgent problem in modern Russia

On the base of theoretical and empirical scientific information, the authors demonstrate a complex of deep social and cultural problems and contradictions in Russian society that arise due to the lack of a career guidance system in the country. They justify the urgent need to revive on a new basis the system of state management of professional orientation of senior teenagers, based on scientific calculations, forecasts and regulation of the labor market, including an orientation towards admission to specific universities in the country.