Аннотация:In modern world the employment of personality is transformed in the process of transition from the practices of industrial society to a post-industrial lifestyle, from a standardized employment model to an individualized employment model. In this article the employment of person is considered as a complex problem, a multidimensional understanding of which is formed as a result of interdisciplinary research. Transformations of employment are included in the economic, political, sociocultural and psychological contexts of modern life. The individualization of employment and self-employment should be considered in connection with the general transformations of the sphere of labor, education and leisure. It is also a methodological problem by virtue of the analysis of its many-sided aspects. For the relevant description of the transformation processes, new terms, analytical constructs, flexible and mixed methodological strategies are created. By solving this problem, we turned to research design based on interdisciplinarity and using mixed approaches and methods, combining quantitative and qualitative analysis. Our study of informal employment focused primarily on students who chose private tutoring as supplementary employment. The additional employment of Russian students is analyzed taking note their motivation, the labor market, as well as sociocultural practices common in Russia. The materials, presented in the article, show that practices of self-employment and personal strategies of student additional employment contribute to more flexible and successful integration of young people in the transformation of the modern world, and also make their view of the future more positive.