“Da formação superior ao desemprego”: estratégias de inserção para o mercado de trabalho em Moçambique

Abstract

In the study that we carried out, we had as pretension to understand the strategies that the newly formed in higher education adopt so as to enter their labor market in Mozambique. In the theoretical framework, we orient ourselves based on Fukuyuma’s (2000) theory of social capital as a way of assuming that young people operate this resource (social capital) to facilitate their entry into the labor market. In methodological terms, we adopted the qualitative perspective, which allowed us to see from the discourses of the young people interviewed, that the search for work aims to improve individual and family living conditions, as well as to perform a remunerable activity. As for the results, young people show preference for professions linked to their higher education, although some are willing to go other areas of work, considering the obstacles they face to get the job. We have observed that recourse to social capital, the media, curriculum qualifications, corruption and nepotism, alternative forms of work are some of the strategies young graduates adopt for their entry into the labor market.