Os egressos do PPGCI/UFPB: representações, perfil e trajetórias profissionais

Abstract

Globalization has forced strong changes in the professional actuation profiles. Changes occurred in the professional actuation process along the years have modified their status quo, and only with the identification of these modifications it can be understood the ways of actuation of the information professional. The research aims to describe the professional trajectory and the social representations in relation to the course of the egresses of the Postgraduate Program in Information Science of the Federal University of Paraíba (PPGCI/UFPB), who presented their dissertations from 2008 to 2013. It is a qualitative and quantitative research of descriptive type, which used questionnaires in the data collection. It is also used the categorization technique, from content analysis, for the treatment and assessment of the data. The results appoints to a good projection of the PPGCI/UFPB. They also show that 65% of the egresses are women who have their professional trajectory marked by the relationship of theoretical and practical knowledge acquired during their formation and professional actuation. The vast majority of the egresses (76%) were inserted in Information Science before entering in the Postgraduate Program. The main motivations for entering in the PPGCI/UFPB are related to professional development, the familiarity with the thematic approached in this Postgraduate Program, and the perspective of career progression after conclude the course. The PPGCI/UFPB has a good conceptualization among their egresses. 55.8% of them consider the formation good and believe that the national projection of the Postgraduate Program favors the search for formation. Therefore, it permits the consolidation of theoretical basis by part of its teaching staff. It can be affirmed that the egresses of the Postgraduate Program are inserted in areas related to Information Science, either in technical or academic field, and this insertion also occurred due to the academic formation. This way, the subjects are exercising their activities in the following areas: Librarianship, Archivology, Information Technology, Communication and Information Management. It is concluded that, according to the view of egresses, it can be visualized the practice of academic formation applied to the Postgraduate Programs and, certainly, enables the egresses answer the longings of post-formation, contributing to the process of improvement and betterment of the programs.