Fatores críticos de sucesso e guinadas em carreira entre 2000 e 2004

Abstract

The initial objective of this work was to discuss the subject matter career in the organizational context, as the original research was carried out with 34 executives working for 12 national and multinational companies. The research evolution and consequent preparation of this essay have enlarged the perspective, because the contact with such professionals in a second interview has enabled to find out several kinds of career, and even some professionals who were unemployed at that time. In an objective way such trajectories, which were shot between the period comprised 2000 and 2004 started to be understood, and articulated to the changes in work relations resulting from the coming of the informational society, fruit of deep and intensive transformations roughly caused by the information technology and globalization in a capitalism under restructuring. In Brazil such impacts are not so much different from those occurred in other countries, and on basis of the careers reviewed it has been seen that the globalization has managed to spread out the modern career model, which is marked by instability, discontinuity and horizontality. Professionals with global careers in multinational companies, professionals with no space in such companies, as well as consultants and small businessmen, some of them happy and others deeply unsure and dissatisfied build the realities found in the analyzed trajectories from a few subject matters deemed to be critical factors for the success in the career: educational trajectory and experience in changing situations. Personal influences reviewed have also been considered by means of the subject matter coaches and guides. And the concept of Career Anchors suggests that self-knowledge and self-concept of professional motivations and trends can be obtained by means of the diversification and variety of professional experiences. For such professionals, identifying their career anchors may have been the key for their personal satisfaction and psychological success. In an unequal society marked by the chasm between an elite which got school graduation and has good jobs, and a mass with no access to formal employment and income conditions, it seems to be a privilege available to a few only. These two questions can be more deeply studied and require future research