Have you listened to the second episode of the FAPUGA Podcast yet? In this edition, we invited two students to talk about their experiences in the job market and the search for career growth opportunities.
What you will find in this article
- Tips for going after career growth opportunities
- Is Fapuga preparing students for this market, with its diverse experiences, possibilities and ambitions? See what the students answered:
- Watch the full episode:
This time’s host, Alexandre, started the conversation with a question: is it better to settle down and grow within one company, or to always be looking for new opportunities in different places?
The guests were students Letícia Mariane and Leevy Miranda, both employed and with good expectations in their respective positions, running counter to trends such as quiet quitting, which suggest that young students like them don’t get so attached to the corporations they work for, at least not as much as previous generations.
While Letícia sees the opportunity to learn, Leevy identifies growth opportunities, and mentions that pursuing an undergraduate degree is a differentiator that shows interest in one’s own professional development, and that showing this behavior is something managers and recruiters take very much into account.
What is best for each person professionally will depend a lot on their own reality, and this second episode of the FAPUGA Podcast is an invitation to think about your own context and also to learn about other realities.
Alexandre Fiacadore, for his part, brought his experience as Fapuga’s manager, being both in the position of a recruiter and of an employee who is also attentive to the market and what it demands.
Tips for going after career growth opportunities
Whether you are happy with your position and company or looking for new challenges, one tip holds true: paying attention to what companies are asking for in the job openings that come up is essential, an important sign of what the next thing to learn or course to pursue should be.
During the conversation itself, Power BI and ChatGPT are mentioned as important differentiators right now (consider it a tip).
If you are more on Letícia and Leevy’s team and also want to build a career with more security and stability, this episode raises another question (and, with it, different possibilities): what is more valuable, length of service or adaptability? I’ll leave it to you to follow how the podcast develops this question by listening to the full episode.
Alexandre brings up working at multinational companies, and Leevy mentions his passion for games and says he would work at a company in that field. But what does it take to be part of a large company?
Alexandre mentions that goals such as working at these big technology corporations stem from the search for well-being at work and for working with what one loves, and that these are often jobs that lean toward the exercise of creativity and innovation.
Is Fapuga preparing students for this market, with its diverse experiences, possibilities and ambitions? See what the students answered:
“I think that, unlike many colleges, Fapuga is a more welcoming college. It’s not just student and teacher, it’s the group: teachers helping students, students helping teachers, students helping each other,” Leevy began, complemented by his classmate Letícia:
“I think here we can be called study mates. We have very close contact, it’s not like at a university where sometimes you don’t even know the person next to you; here we know everyone.”
Even among students from different programs, there is no distance, but unity, visible in their mutual collaboration.
But enough transcripts: you can watch the whole conversation and, if you want, take part too. After all, if we are talking about diversity of viewpoints, we want to hear yours as well, and it could even become the topic of a future conversation; just leave your ideas in the comments.
Watch the full episode:
#2 FAPUGA Podcast – Grow within the same company or look for new opportunities outside it?
And if you haven’t seen it yet, there is a post on this blog about the pilot podcast: “College and practice: business administration and hospital management students talk about their experiences”.
