Estudo Preliminar do Perfil do Profissional de TI no Brasil

Abstract

In the face of the growing need that companies and other knowledge areas have of products and services provided by Information Technology (IT), it also becomes ne cessary to study and understand who, after all, are the people responsible for delivering these products and services, the IT professional. Our study aims to draw and propose a preliminar profile of IT professionals that synthesizes common characteristics found and discussed on previous studies about this theme on the literature in a way that enables us to observe possible behavior patterns and personality or demographics aspects, such as a male majority and the appreciation of cognitively demanding activities and a well structured work environment, all of which helps us to better understand these workers of such importance even outside their field. As a way of validating our proposed profile, we confront our findings with the results of a questionnaire applied among IT professionals in Brazil and verified whether the tendencies and information observed in the literature were confirmed in our sample of respondents.