Abstract
Regulation of the level of employment through targeted programs is a current task of public administration, aimed at ensuring a sustainable social effect for the applicant in the form of employment. The purpose of the article is to identify objective and subjective factors influencing the final results of the project "Social workplaces". The research methodology is based on a sociological survey of 206 respondents one year after leaving the project. The results were processed by the method of structural modeling in the PLS-PM program. This method allows the evaluation of complex causal patterns with hidden variables that are significant but not observable. The results showed that the factors of an employee’s competitiveness influence their current labor contract two times stronger than the factors of the project. There is correctly selected interdependence of events revealed that the passive motivation of the participant at the start changes if the trajectory of participation. and is achieved in a sustainable social effect.