Fábio Nogueira Pereira
This study researched how a population of 40 undergraduate students attending a career planning project in aprivate college perceived work, career and their relation with interpersonal relationships. The questionnairerevealed that most subjects perceived work positively, reported through four different perceptions of work,reported perceiving a social dimension of work, but about half of it reported that they didn’t perceive people ingeneral working in a way that showed being concerned about changing society. When the subjects listed peoplewho worked with the same values they held, reports ranged through parents, bosses and friends; when askedabout people that didn’t have the same values, they listed work-mates, peers and siblings; when asked aboutmost important people for their career, they listed their parents separately, teachers and children. Data suggesteda wide participation of relationships in processing information and constructing conceptions related to work andcareer.