In the last decade, the number of young people unemployed has grown in Brazil, mainly between 2015 and 2016, according to a report by IPEA (Institute of Applied Economic Research) and the ILO (International Labor Organization), which was published in 2020. According to Gustavo Farias, a leadership instructor at Udemy, taking a degree may not be enough for anyone interested in starting their professional life.
“In most areas of the job market where there is fierce competition, students need to be prepared with skills additional fees when they graduate, that is if they want a job with good pay", said the specialist.
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Some tips passed by Farias for those who want to get their first job are: doing internships to be able to acquire experience in a practical way, learn to use tools and technologies that are very popular and trends in the sector in which you are interested in working and take some courses online. “One of the roles of the online courses is to be able to quickly help professionals to obtain skills that can open up some new opportunities in the job market”, he added.
The expert points out that not always having a university degree is the best way for those who yearn for a first qualified job. “For those who want to work in the IT area, it may be more interesting to learn a broad programming language, which is used by companies, in the example of Python or JavaScript”, says Would you. For him, these specific skills that professionals have end up being taken into account, more than those who have a degree or an MBA.
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