A formação em Secretariado Executivo e sua influência no empreendedorismo feminino em meio a pandemia da Covid-19

Abstract

The present work analyzes the influence and contribution of the graduation in Executive Secretariat in the formation of entrepreneurial professionals, with emphasis on female entrepreneurship. The justification for carrying out the work is to identify whether entrepreneurship is a career option for the executive secretary and whether graduation offers the basis for the success of these professionals as entrepreneurs. The work also presents the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on female entrepreneurship and whether there was an impact on the business of the executive secretariats. Its main objective is to identify the contribution of training in Executive Secretariat to boost or favor the option of students and alumni for the career of entrepreneurs from the covid-19 pandemic. For this, qualitative research was adopted, being classified as exploratory, through a bibliographic and documental research and using the interview as a data collection technique. The interview was conducted with female students and graduates from the Executive Secretariat course offered by UFC, within the period from 2019.2 to 2021.2. Based on the results found, the training in Executive Secretariat has a still incipient basis of entrepreneurial education, which leads professionals to not feel safe in undertaking only with a degree in Executive Secretariat. In addition to proving that the businesses of the participants suffered major impacts and some were closed due to the covid-19 pandemic.