Abstract
Education of young generation, aimed at teaching how to manage own knowledge in the economy, is a great challenge for the teaching staff at each stage of education. The paper is to analyze the data describing the selection of development path of pupils and students. Comparing them with the expectations set up by the market through the implementation of the concept of Industry 4.0 will allow the estimation of whether the technical education offer (in the area of Industrial Engineering) is a sufficient response to the economic preferences relating to employment.