This article offers a critical discussion of the issue of youths and the transitions between school and work, and it formulates some avenues for solutions through a youth policy coordinated with the individual, collective and institutional rules levels which would enable improved interventions with regard to the identified problems. The author draws attention to problematic situations related to these transitions, and shows that strategies focused primarily on the youth training-education dimension assume specific areas of vulnerability with regard to the integration of youths into the job market. In doing so, these strategies tend to minimize both the market's role in these itself in the transition process and the problems encounter by other populations.