THE ECONOMIC AND TECHNICAL CONTEMPORARY PARADIGM AND THE TRANSITION TO WORK OF HIGHER EDUCATION GRADUATES IN ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING AND CONSTRUCTION

Abstract

The current scenario of greater economic difficulties and social uncertainties makes the professional area of «Engineering, Manufacturing and Construction» assume greater social importance, because they may be seen as professionals that can induce qualitative changes in the ways to produce, build and live in modern societies. The present paper focuses on graduates’ in «Engineering, Manufacturing and Construction» transition to work trajectories five years after obtaining the academic degree, in an objective perspective, the career trajectories, and in what subjective relation to work - work centrality and work satisfaction - concerns, within a analytical regard to graduates’ gender. Also, it is intended to present a conceptual and theoretical incursion of «competence model», bearing in mind socio-technical approach in the relationship between associating academic learning and key qualifications required by the labor market

Keywords

• graduates’ employability, socio-technical approach, work centrality, gender

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