The strategic objective of pedagogy is to prepare the younger generation for their professional activities. In a country with a developed industry the majority of the population works in the sphere of material production. The article aims to analyze traditional practice of students’ preparation for work and to identify educational problems in the new social and industrial conditions of life. The author considers it important to identify and predict the educational requirements to the organization of the process of sec-ondary school students’ preparation and motivation to work in the high-tech manufacturing.