(Re)Search for Career: Distance career intervention, employability and social equity in the access to the labour market

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ePortfólios como recurso de carreira: programa online com estudantes do ensino superior

Publication . Henriques, Susana; Goulão, Fátima; Barros, Daniela Melaré Vieira

O programa B4C -Boost for Careervisa promover e/ou melhorar a empregabilidade dos estudantes do ensino superior a partir de um enfoque nos recursos de carreira. Foi desenhado e oferecido em ambiente digital para estudantes de duas instituições de ensino superior públicas portuguesas. Noâmbito do programa cada participante desenvolveu um eportfólio enquanto instrumento de apoio à empregabilidade e de avaliação. No presente artigo apresentamos e discutimos os resultados da análise de conteúdo temática dos 151 eportfólios desenvolvidos nasduas edições do B4C. A análise temática foi orientada, por um lado, pelos temas emergentes da estrutura teórica, designadamente os recursos de carreira, e por outo lado, pela sua operacionalização por parte dos participantes. Os principais resultados evidenciam que o programa, enquanto desenvolveu competências específicas, relacionadas com os recursos de carreira e outras como as digitais, desenvolveu também a consciência para a importância dos recursos de carreira numa perspetiva de integração ou de gestão de percursos complexos.

2024Journal article

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Boost 4 Career: programa a distância de promoção da empregabilidade de estudantes do ensino superior

Publication . Monteiro, Sílvia; Seabra, Filipa; Almeida, Leandro S.; Santos, Sandra; Silva, Ana Daniela; Sampaio, Célia

O programa Boost for Career é um programa de intervenção a distância destinado à promoção dos recursos de carreira de estudantes do ensino superior. Registado no IGAC (Inspeção-Geral das Atividades Culturais - Direção de Serviços de Propriedade Intelectual), com o número: Registo de obra em co-autoria n.º 750/2023. Data de registo - 04/04/2023.

2023Report

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Boost 4 Career: a distance intervention for the promotion of career resources

Publication . Santos, Sandra; Seabra, Filipa; Monteiro, Sílvia; Almeida, Leandro

2023-08-22Conference object

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Boost 4 Career: assessment of a distance-based career resource intervention according to social class and work status

Publication . Monteiro, Sílvia; Seabra, Filipa; Santos, Sandra; Almeida, Leandro

2023-08-22Conference object

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Career development support among university students with special educational needs

Publication . Martins, Ana Paula Loução; Seabra, Filipa; Monteiro, Sílvia; Santos, Sandra; Grandinho, Patrícia

Within an inclusive society every individual has rights and responsibilities, belongs to community life, has an active role to play, and has the right to feel valued, safe, connected, and cared for. Creating an inclusive society and higher education system is a worldwide challenge, particularly when related to employment and career resources. Therefore, we carried out a qualitative study to explore salient career development support among university students with special educational needs. Thus, influenced by an interpretative paradigm and qualitative methods, we developed a research based on multiple realities of a purposive sample of four students, two of them feminine and two male, aged between 18 and 41 years old, and self-reported having a diagnosis of specific learning disabilities (SLD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). They were enrolled in graduation degrees from the 1st and 2nd cycles of study, related to technologies, teaching, and social sciences, at two public Portuguese universities. This study was approved by the two universities’ ethics committees, participation was informed and voluntary, and ethics guidelines for educational research were carefully considered and implemented. We used partially structured open-ended interviews and inductive and deductive thematic analysis using MAXQDA, version 24. Criteria of credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability were considered. The two over-arching themes identified were the facilitators and the challenges of the career resources development throughout participants’ educational pathways from secondary to university. Preliminary results suggested that those students who had a diagnosis as children were able to recognize facilitators within their pre-university pathways, being those related to the inclusive legislation that since 1991 exist in all Portuguese schools, as well as the existence of specialized supports within the school system. Additionally, as examples of facilitators throughout the university pathway, participants reported: informal support from professors, friends and family, their own ability to self-motivate and learn, their own characteristics related to SLS or ADHD, and intervention of the university support office (one student). In what concerns challenges in their pre-university pathways, participants highlighted the impact that special educational needs had on academic and social adjustment, negative experiences regarding social and learning inclusion, lack of knowledge regarding the transition to adulthood, an atypical pathway in school development, and lack of support in what concerns career decisions. Among the challenges participants faced during their time at the university, the most notable were the fact that three of the participants did not ask for formal support from the university, and the lack of support and preparation they felt from some of their teachers to accommodate their needs and characteristics. On a more personal level, two participants mentioned difficulties with time management. Implications from this study will be discussed, focusing on its potential for higher education institutions to contribute to the development of graduates’ employability. Considering the lack of research concerning this topic, these results can promote awareness, curiosity, and suggest a major shift in how educational institutions promote career development for students with special educational needs.

2024-11Conference object

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