Expectativas de discentes de ciências contábeis da Universidade Federal da Paraíba em relação ao mercado de trabalho

Abstract

Increasingly, competition for a job market by students completing higher education is increasing, many are influenced by many aspects, whether personal, family or even third-party at the time of the course option, with this there arises the need to understand what interferes in this choice, the perception that the conclusion has of the labor market. With this, the purpose of this Course Conclusion Work is to analyze the expectations of students of the Accounting Sciences course of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) in relation to the labor market. The study was descriptive, and a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data collected through semi-structured interviews was carried out, the result observed was that 45% of the interviewees are said to be influenced by the labor market, 38% chose the Accounting Sciences course for personal reasons, 14% had family participation and 3% were influenced by third parties. 85% of the students interviewed were interested in acting as an accounting professional, however, 39% believe they will have some difficulty, given the competition, the crisis scenario and little experience, only. 52% consider themselves prepared for the sufficiency test. In addition, only 31% say they are prepared to act as an accountant.