SUPERVISED INTERNSHIP DISCIPLINES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS AS A TRAINING TOOL FOR THE LABOR MARKET: A STUDY ON THE PERCEPTION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

The internship is an important point for the career development of every professional, it provides students with knowledge of the areas of their profession and from this, they have the opportunity to enter the job market and follow the area of their choice. In view of this, this article discusses the perception of the students' view of the relevance of supervised internship disciplines and their contributions to the training and education of students. The choice for the theme of this work is related to the purpose of understanding how the supervised internship seen by the students of campus IV of UFPB. It seeks to understand if it contributes to the preparation of students for the job market, since most of the time, the internship is the first contact of students with the profession. The technique used in the proposed research is bibliographic, documentary and with a case study, with the application of a questionnaire developed for the research and has 12 questions, 3 of which are open questions. Responses were collected from 27 students, of the 87 who are taking the disciplines of internship I, II, III, IV of the accounting sciences course, in the period of 2021.2. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many commercial activities have undergone modifications to fit the current reality and with the internship activities it was no different in the period of application of the research, the disciplines of supervised internship have undergone modifications to continue the activities in the current scenario. When we evaluate the answers collected also on this subject, we can see that the different opinions of the students are, in general, in tune, demonstrating that regardless of age, the period they are attending and the internship subjects they have taken or are currently taking. The student's thinking is similar, where he emphasizes the importance of the internship discipline for development, training and entry into the job market.