Resumo:
This study attempts to analyze the professional situation of those technicians who have graduated from Colegio Florestal, a technical high school in the state of Parana in the South of Brazil. The data was gathered through mailed questionaires filled out by 73% of these technicians. The first research objective was to establish the percentages of those who work as forest technicians and those who do not. Secondly it was verified as to whether any differences might be attributed to the professions of the respondents fathers.
As far as the graduate students who work in the forestry sector are concerned a number of variables have been analyzed. They include the geographic distribuition, the types of enterprises where they work and the activities they perform. The wage and salary structure and the position the ocupay in the organization structure of the enterprise or instution was also analyzed. Finally, the level of job satisfation of the forest technicians was studied. Certain recomendations concerning forest education and policy are presented at the end of the paper.
