Mercado financeiro brasileiro: uma análise da percepção dos egressos do curso de Secretariado Executivo da Universidade Federal do Ceará acerca de uma atuação nesse campo profissional

Abstract

In recent years, the Brazilian financial market has grown exponentially, leading numerous companies to open their capitals in order to keep up with this growth. With this, companies naturally create departments to take care of their relationship with investors and the market, requiring trained professionals who have the skills to interact with the various factors in the business world. In the meantime, the executive secretary comes on the scene, with his or her multidisciplinary training, able to act as an important agent of change in order to meet the needs of these organizations that seek professionals with his or her profile. The general objective of this research is to analyze the level of knowledge of graduates of the Executive Secretary course at the Federal University of Ceará about the financial market in order to consider this field as an option for their career, and the specific objectives are: to identify the basic knowledge of graduates of the Executive Secretary course at the Federal University of Ceará regarding the financial market; to investigate if there is interest in working in the financial market among graduates of the Executive Secretary course at the Federal University of Ceará; and to verify what graduates of the Executive Secretary course at the Federal University of Ceará consider necessary to work as professionals in the financial market. Methodologically, the research is of a quali-quantitative nature of the descriptive type, utilizing descriptive statistics for the analysis of the data, having as theoretical basis a bibliographical survey about the performance of the professional executive secretary in the financial market and for the collection of data, a questionnaire, applied to 65 graduates of the Executive Secretary course of the UFC. For the tabulation of the data, Excel spreadsheets were used. After the interpretation of the data, it was inferred that the participants of the research do not possess, in their majority, much knowledge about the Brazilian financial market or interest in entering the area, considering that, despite their multidisciplinary formation, a specialization is necessary in order to finally become a professional in this branch.