Desenvolvimento de carreira: que caminhos os jovens universitários brasileiros devem seguir para alcançar boas oportunidades no mercado de trabalho

Abstract

This thesis is study on ways the Brazilian university young students must achieve good opportunities in the job market, and this theme is related to career development. Its objective is to identify what leads a young university student to be enough competitive to achieve good opportunities in the job market. For this, it is discussed themes related to career plan, competences development, competitive advantage and good opportunities in the job market. Then it appears that achieving good opportunities in the job market starts with a career plan build by the own individual and it must be well defined its professional objective and what are the job opportunities, as well as it is essential to develop competences, because they are the big advantage between a professional from another. All of these aspects previously mentioned are described and analyzed in the first chapters of this research, bibliography research. In field research, questionnaires were applied with university students or recent graduates from 18 to 30 years old, who are currently in good opportunities that the market offers, specifically in large companies with international bias, and it was checked profile, competences and experiences that these young people lived. With all this, it was concluded that to achieve good opportunities in the job market it is necessary to develop a range of competences, with emphasis mainly to interpersonal, technical, intellectual and intrapersonal, which are developed through practical leadership experience, volunteer work, international exchange and internship in the study area.