Orientação profissional e o atual mundo do trabalho: a busca de um novo significado frente a um novo cenário

Abstract

This research seek to place as the Professional Guidance is positioned in Brazil, starting from the perception of a group of professional guides, below mentioned, with regard to the paper and to the commitment of this area of the knowledge before society. It has, as presupposition, the existence of new scenario in the world of work, with significant consequences in the resulting relationships: in the work and with the work. The issue here researched refers to the possibility of a relationship establishment of this possible perception, on the part of the subjects, with its commitment and professional performance. The context to be analyzed is concemed with the world of the present work, represented by an economic situation based in the financial sphere, by the growing unemployment levels, by the gradual extinction of the employment and by the precarious conditions and work relationships, confirming a scenario that includes few and excludes many. The guiding questions to the present research are related, therefore, with the current scenario, with base in the world conception of the human being and of the work in the society, as viewed by the referred guides. It is allowed to verify, based in these presuppositions, how these professionals are acting within the populations where they are playing: young that shortly will enter in the world of the work or adults that seek a new place, predominantly in function of the economic-social factors above exposed. How, through what means, with base in what elements are these populations being prepared to live the present and the future, in the conception of the researche? professional guides, it is the first question of present study. And, in the sense of establishing basis, it was researched what these subjects are thinking, perceiving, sharing and exercising, while professional guides, with relationship to the present scenario and with regard to their doing. The researched population is constituted of professional guides of the South and Southeast areas of Brazil, partners of ABOP- Associação Brasileira de Orientadores Profissionais (Professional Guides Brazilian Association). It was possible to verify what and how the researched subjects are perceiving the current scenario of the world of work and how they place the Professional Guidance inside that picture, favoring a depth discussion about the evidences and possibilities of the Professional Guidance to become a process oflarger meaning in the society, while perspective and social action