Abstract

BRAGA, Daniel Santos; INACIO, Márcia Helena; SALOME, Nivalda Chaves dos Santos  and  BRESCIA, Amanda Tolomelli. Employability and occupational destiny of higher education graduates: a literature review. Educ. Puc. [online]. 2022, vol.27, e225382. ISSN 2318-0870.  https://doi.org/10.24220/2318-0870v27e2022a5382.

This review article discusses recent research on the professional insertion of graduates of higher education in Brazil. For this, a survey of productions was carried out on indexed bases and academic repositories published in the country in recent decades. Based on eligibility criteria, 30 papers were selected that comprised the documentary corpus of the study. A significant part of the documents located relate to graduates of teacher training courses. Thus, the study was disaggregated between productions on graduates in general and graduates of bachelor’s degrees, and of these, research on graduates of pedagogy courses stood out. In the analyses, it was possible to classify the productions into three categories: (i) those that relate the insertion of graduates to changes in the labor market; (ii) those that address professional trajectories in interface with structural inequalities of society; and (iii) those that associate the work insertion of graduates to the specificities of the training area. Among the results, it was identified that the productions on graduates of higher education are well distributed in the three groups. For graduates of undergraduate studies and Pedagogy, the works focus on the third category, except for courses from the diversified part of the curriculum. It was also possible to conclude that, in general, the labor market for graduates absorbs graduates within the training area with relative ease, even though inequalities in remuneration remain in terms of gender and race.

Keywords : Occupational destination; Higher education; Employability; Job market.

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