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Re:The Last Soviet Generation by glogla on Saturday December 25, 2021 @04:48AM (#29681876)
Young people were assigned jobs on finishing schooling. There was not much "looking for a job". Unless you had the right contacts, the closest thing to deciding where to work at was to pick a higher education - if you picked automotive engineering, you'd end up in a different place than if you picked medicine or something.
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Re:The Last Soviet Generation by artem247 on Saturday December 25, 2021 @05:27AM (#29682033)
>> young people were assigned jobs on finishing schooling

Could you provide evidence for this?

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Re:The Last Soviet Generation by glogla on Saturday December 25, 2021 @11:38AM (#29684600)
It's hard to find English source. You could try machine translation of this wikipedia page [1] - but that says it was mandatory only in 1951 to 1959 and then it was changed to a recommendation.

I know my uncle was supposed to go to one company but then that didn't work our for some reason and he had to look for a job himself, which was supposed to be rare. That would be early 1980s.

[1]: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Um%C3%ADst%C4%9Bnka

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Re:The Last Soviet Generation by ivas on Saturday December 25, 2021 @06:58AM (#29682552)
"Job by distribution" was no secret and it is a well-known thing among people from post-soviet countries. Graduates were obliged to work at assigned place, usually for three years.
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