Perspectivas de carreira dos concluintes de um curso de Administração pertencentes à geração Z

Abstract

The present qualitative and descriptive study aims to identify the career perspective of the final students of the Administration course belonging to generation Z of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), knowing the career anchors and evidencing students' perceptions about the subject . The data collection was done through a questionnaire of career anchors based on the studies of Schein (1996) and semi-structured interview conducted with ten students of the last year of graduation in Administration of the UFPB. Using content analysis, it has been observed that students' career perspectives are quite varied, but career anchors strongly influence defined career paths. Most surveyed introduces as the first dominant anchor Business Creativity, and then the Lifestyle Anchor appears as the second dominant anchor. Still in the analyzes, it was identified that the students do not give up the conviviality with the family and of the principles in which they believe, the main characteristic pointed out like that that will help the chosen professional destiny is the determination, the majority began to think about career only during graduation, career preference in the same organization or in several shared opinions, and experiences before undergraduate had little influence on the career. Thus, the results point out that there is a relationship between the perspectives and the career anchors of the respondents, which guides the career decisions of these individuals.