Criteria Formation of Effective High-School Graduates Employment Based upon Data Mining Methods I. Bolodurina, Y. Akhmayzyanova Orenburg State University, Orenburg, Russia yuliyanova@yandex.ru Abstract. This work is devoted to the investigation of the main factors influ- encing high-school graduates’ employment. This investigation is conducted us- ing Data Mining methods. Two approaches to the identification of hidden pat- terns in data are employed. The first method is decision trees and the second method is production rules extraction. Both methods are combined and com- pared to each other. Keywords: Data Mining, patterns identification, criteria, effective graduates employment.