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In recent years there has been a growing demand for graduates of higher education for the public service, including graduates in Management. Because of the relevance of this professional to organizations and to society, is capital to concern to know which are as of professional activities are chosen by the students. This study aim to explore the professional expectations of management students from the perspective of Schein's career anchors. The study is a descriptive and explanatory one and was done through survey with 108 respondents. The working hypothesis is that students have the public service as a professional expectation to complete the degree in management. The results are emblematic, since the hypothesis was confirmed and evidences indicates that management students present as last anchors the "Managerial Competence" and "Entrepreneurial Creativity", more related to the management job. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is, today, social pressure for a planning in someone's professional life, which is a product of the notion that a person can and should intervene with their professional trajectory. Society, none the less, values factors such as mobility and flexibility. In the career anchors concept, elements of reality determine patters of choice in the professional trajectory. However, the context of constant adjustments, development and changes suggests movement in the career. The theoretical assimilation of the boundaryless career concept permits the inclusion of the movement notion to the specter of the self-perception of the anchors' value. This article's goal is to present the results of a descriptive research in which the career anchors, from a group of administration graduates from a private university in São Paulo, were analyzed and to expand the research expansion. The effective Anchors, Life Style, with 22% of the checked options, Autonomy / Independence with 19%, Technical / Functional Skills with 19%, were quite surprising choices, regarding boundaryless careers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]