This article applies to selected problems of young people in the labor market in Poland in example province podkarpackiego. Young people under 25 years of age, according to the Act on employment promotion and labor market institutions of 20 April 2004 are one of the groups that are in a special situation on the labor market. Accordingly, this issue is often discussed research from both theory and practice. The aim of this paper is to illustrate the problem of youth unemployment on the labor market against the nationwide trend of podkarpackie province . Principal attention is focused on some of the problems that are associated with finding work for young people that possess a higher education (addresses the lack of work experience and the need to adapt graduates to the conditions of local labor markets). Results of analyzes were used, among others, statistical database of the Central Statistical Office, including information from the Local Data Bank.