Behavior of university students with respect to developing their career ; Comportamiento del alumnado universitario ante el desarrollo de su carrera profesional

Introduction. Departing from the model of vocational development of Super and from Salomone's considerations on not theoretical variation of the Super model for 40 years, the present work approaches the study and characterization of the vocational behavior of the university students that one finds at the conclusion of your initial training. More concretely, the intention of this research was double, on one hand, to explore the general behavior of the students before your immediate professional future and, on the other hand, to demonstrate the difference existence in the above mentioned behavior depending on some biographical variables as the age, the gender, the course or the degree.Method. For it there were selected at random 446 students of the La Laguna University be-longing to the last or one before last course of a whole of 19 careers, who had to answer with the options of response: (A) is exactly equal or looks alike greatly; (B) is the opposite, does not look alike at all; and (C) I do not consider it, have not thought about it; to diverse items of a questionnaire recounted to: (1) Criteria of choice of the optional subjects; (2) Priority of the professional plans; (3) Knowledge of the labour market and of the profession; and (4) Strategies of search of employment.Results. The results demonstrate, on one hand, the existence of certain levels of immaturity in the vocational behavior of the students that comes at the conclusion of the formative university stage and, on the other hand, the comparative analyses among the students attending to the biographical variables they throw differences according to the age, the gender and the degree, but not depending on the course.Conclussions. Finally, with a view to future research, it is suggested that to go deeply into the knowledge of the vocational development of the all students, it is necessary rely on major quantity of studies that they should allow to examine the general and differential characteristics of the vocational behavior in the stages of ...