The present paper discusses the needs from the northern Paraná companies for professionals graduated on Technological College Courses. It is an exploratory research that due to its adopted technical procedures may be characterized as a case study. The research method used was the inductive one. The results show that there is the necessity by the companies of professionals graduated on Technological College Courses, in their majority, who usually act within their specific area and their intimacy to other professionals on technological areas happens naturally. The conclusion of the research introduces the technologist within the productive environment as a professional to require as well as to collaborate to several fronts, mainly facing to the new technological tendencies since he gets a theoretical and practical knowledge and can contribute both to companies and society.
Professional education; Technologist; Labor market
