Entrepreneurial perspectives of the students of the Librarianship course of the Federal University of Amazonas

Abstract

It identifies the entrepreneurial perspectives of the students of the fourth period of the Librarianship course of the Federal University of Amazonas in relation to the labor market. Its specific objectives are: to trace the profile of the students enrolled in the fourth period of the UFAM Librarianship Course, to know the vision of these scholars in relation to the labor market and to present the entrepreneurial perspectives of the interest of these future professionals. It is an exploratory and descriptive research, having as universe the students regularly enrolled in the course of Librarianship. It concludes in relation to the academic profile, that 70% of the students are female, with age group between 19 and 25 years, receiving financial assistance from the parents. Regarding the job market view, it indicates that only 8% will effectively undertake the field or have their own business, although 55% of respondents do not rule out the possibility of undertaking the field at some point in their professional career. It should be noted that the entrepreneurial perspectives of greatest interest are: documentary normalization and the professional contribution in portals of periodicals and publishers. It is hoped that from the research, the students occupy new niches of performance to the detriment of the decreasing number of available places in public tenders of public tenders.