Career choices – young people in the region follow the labor market, avoid trades, and seek work–life balance

Young people in the Western Balkans, when choosing a profession, follow labor market trends. They opt for IT, technology, as well as construction, architecture, and medical faculties, but they also find vocational secondary education interesting because it is linked to industry. Trades, however, attract little interest. In addition to good earnings, an increasingly important factor for them is achieving a balance between work and private life—this is the prevailing mindset of the new generations now choosing their professional paths when regional data and experiences are considered together.

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