Egressos do programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação da Universidade Federal da Bahia: perfil e mercado de trabalho de 2007 a 2019.

Abstract

The investigation aims to analyze the profile and insertion in the job market of graduates of the Postgraduate Program in Information Science at the Federal University of Bahia, in the period from 2007 to 2019 and to achieve this purpose we have the following specific objectives, Identify graduates of the Postgraduate Course in Information Science at the Federal University of Bahia from 2007 to 2019; Trace the profile of graduates of the Postgraduate Program in Information Science at the Federal University of Bahia, from 2007 to 2019 and Map the performance and professional insertion in the job market of graduates of the Postgraduate Course in Information Science at Bahia. Federal University of Bahia, from 2007 to 2019. The method chosen was monographic, of the organizational case study type, due to the nature of the object investigated. Furthermore, the research is descriptive in nature and has a qualitative and quantitative approach. In the preliminary stage, a survey of relevant information was carried out on the websites of Postgraduate Programs in Information Science and also on the Lattes and Sucupira Platforms, in order to quantify the existing programs in Brazil. Documentary research was carried out on the website of the Postgraduate Course in Information Science at the Institute of Information Science at the Federal University of Bahia to identify its graduates and consult documents and reports, a source of primary information, without which the research would be unfeasible. For the theoretical foundation and preparation of the questionnaire, bibliography was consulted in secondary sources, mainly articles, books and other works. In this search and retrieval of information, several strategies were adopted, using the descriptors “information science”, “postgraduate”, “graduates” and “job market”, retrieved from banks and databases, Scielo, Portal de Periódicos from CAPES and Google Scholar and Bank of Theses and Dissertations. Data collection was possible through the questionnaire, composed of nineteen open and closed questions, applied to graduates who defended their dissertations/theses in the period referred to. Subsequently, a pre-test was carried out with graduates from periods prior to this research, in order to refine the collection instrument, minimizing possible inconsistencies and noise interference. The resulting data was organized in Excel, tabulated and represented in graphs and tables for better visualization and interpretation. The results made it possible to achieve the objectives set, to design the academic and professional profile of graduates of the Postgraduate Program in Information Science at the Federal University of Bahia and their insertion in the job market during the proposed period, as well as to learn about other aspects of the themes in study. The study concludes with the characteristics of the profile of the graduates under analysis, the socioeconomic ones, which identifies the predominant female gender, earning an average salary of 7 thousand reais, and whose age is between 31 and 35; the professionals, in which the librarian/documentalist predominates, working at the federal level, with an employment relationship prior to entering the master's and doctorate course, and who underwent a change in their work occupation after completing the course, with the majority of them going into teaching; and academics, detecting that the majority of graduates studied at the stage level, and whose scientific production corresponds to between 1 and 5 works in conference annals. It is expected that the study will provide support for improving the quality of teaching and learning in the Postgraduate Program in Information Science at the Federal University of Bahia, the scientific production of its teaching staff and graduates, thus demonstrating its efficiency in training masters and doctors to work in teaching and/or research and also professionals to work in the field of Information Science.