“…The emergence of higher education has helped establish different factors that make studying a graduate degree valuable (Zhu & Reeves, 2019;Menon et al, 2017). For Jackson (2021), the main factors include: i) the increasing number of employers who require graduate diplomas to hire employees for high-level positions; ii) the growing trend of employers encouraging and supporting their employees to further their professional development in graduate studies based on the perception that it is an added value to human capital (Trachuk & Linder, 2022); and iii) the increasing professionalization of the industry (Rudskaya et al, 2020), whether as a response to new industrial developments or as a matter of personal benefit to attain a higher salary, gain social prestige and have more control of one's working conditions (Santini, Ladeira, Sampaio & Da Silva Costa, 2017;Zaaba et al, 2015). On the one hand, there are factors found in some studies that play an important role in graduate career choices, such as career interest, knowledge, and adaptability, for example, and on the other, there are also some approaches where intervention in the career choice, have a positive impact encouraging reflection on the future, identifying own strengths and building plan future projects (Ginevra et al, 2017;Ashari et al, 2019).…”