The feeling of Sisyphus: experiences of non-employment by overqualified adults

• Autor(a) principal: Amorim, José Pedro
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Azevedo, Joaquim, Imaginário, Luís, Coimbra, Joaquim Luís
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/investigacaoeducacional.2011.3339

In contemporary Western societies, it seems that we are witnessing a worsening of the sense of uncertainty, a decrease of social cohesion and, simultaneously, an increase of vocational alternatives and possibilities of choice. The goal of this project is then related to the way that graduated adults perceive themselves when facing non-employment situations, that is, when they cannot obtain an employment in their qualification level and/or training area. In addition, we try to understand what are the strategies implemented by individuals to deal with these developmental transitions. We believe this work has scientific relevance, because it is about an understudied problem in Portugal, and social pertinence, also, given the fact that it refers to a signifi cant set of unemployed people, to which we must add the numbers of “inactive” (available and discouraged) and underemployment (visible and perceived) that are not part of the official statistics.