Civil Engineer. Master in Industrial Engineering. Doctor of Science in Education. Experience in supervision, planning and management of industrial projects in transnational companies. Resident Engineer in medium and large scale civil works, buildings and

Abstract

This paper presents a study on the factorial structure of the job expectations questionnaire in university students at the Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela. The main objective of the study was to analyze the predictive capacity and the sociodemographic, educational and work expectations characterization of a sample of university students. The research design was approved by the Research Direction of the Universidad Metropolitana and twenty-eight sections participated. The instrument used was a job expectations questionnaire that included 17 items. The results showed that the predictive capacity of the questionnaire was high and that personal
attributes and the perspective of results are relevant to assessing the quality of university education and the labor market insertion of university graduates. In addition, it was found that most of the students surveyed had career-related job expectations and that most of them were willing to work abroad.