The Influence of Vocational Guidance on the Professional Interests of
University Students in the Andes of Peru Case: Apurímac

Wilber Jiménez Mendoza1, Carolina Soto Carrión2, Haydeé Chata Mamani1 , Alejandro Narvaez Liceras3
(1. Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, National University Micaela Bastidas de Apurímac, Peru;
2. Faculty of Engineering, Technological University of the Andes, Portugal;

3. Faculty of Administration, National University of San Marcos, Peru)

Abstract: The Andes of Peru, represents an area of enormous territory of complicated access by the same Geography, from there come (from the countryside to the city) thousands of young people, baffled without knowing what to study. Therefore, vocational guidance represents a help for the student, since it allows him to have a knowledge of himself in terms of his abilities, abilities and aptitudes, so that this aid arouses in him an interest for the election or ratification of his future profession.
The objective is to search, describe and explain the vocational orientation and professional interests of young university students, and the necessary motivation for academic achievement in the Professional Academic School of Bilingual Intercultural Initial Education: First and Second Childhood of the National University Micaela Bastidas located in the high Andean area of Apurimac.
Based on the results obtained, we can explain that according to the linear regression model between the vocational orientation and professional interest variables, the positive slope yields 0.8166, which allows us to infer that, if the vocational orientation variable grows, the professional interests variable it also grows, meaning that there is an influence of the first on the second variable.
An explanatory level research and non-experimental transectional design was developed. The non-probabilistic sample selection by trial, which covered 144 students from V to X semester who carry out pre-professional practices, to whom a (technical) survey with a Likert scale was applied for the two variables. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for the analysis.

Key words: vocational guidance, professional interests, university students, intercultural education