Perfil de intereses vocacionales, con base a la teoría de Holland en estudiantes de primer ingreso de las carreras del Área Administrativa de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja

Abstract

The present thesis work assessed the vocational interests of college students in the administrative area, of the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja. We performed a descriptive study with a quantitative approach of the type exploratory and descriptive. In the collection of information was used the instrument Self-Directed Search-SDS (Holland, 2014), considered as a tool of orientation and preference vocational categorized into six personality types: Realistic (R), Investigator (I), Artistic (A), Social (S), Enterprising (E), or Conventional (C). The sample is made up of 115 first-entry students from the administrative area. The method used is descriptive and variables such as age: gender, vocational interests, vocational orientation, reasons that influenced career choice and personality type based on Holland typology were analyzed. It can be concluded that, for the most part, students have a social profile characterized by interpersonal and educational relationship skills. The research showed that students chose their university careers for intrinsic reasons focused on self-realization and achievement of goals.