Perspectivas de carreira de ingressantes de um curso de administração pertencentes à geração Z

Abstract

The objective of this qualitative and descriptive study is to understand the relationship between the career perspectives and the influences of the career anchors in generation Z, based on research with incoming students of the Administration course of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) . For the data collection, individual semi-structured interviews were carried out and Edgar Schein's career anchors questionnaire (1996) was applied to ten students from the first period of the course. From the questionnaire, it was identified that the anchor that has greater representativeness is Lifestyle, that is to say, there is a propensity of this generation in wanting to balance their personal life to the professional and familiar one, besides cherishing for its quality of life and well- be. Through content analysis, a variety of career perspectives were identified, with a greater emphasis on career as an entrepreneur and individuals with more than one career direction. Thus, the results reveal convergence across all perspectives and career anchors of respondents, which means that their values, motivations, and abilities serve as a guide to their professional choices.