Amorim, José PedroAzevedo, JoaquimImaginário, LuísCoimbra, Joaquim Luís2014-04-152014-04-152011AMORIM, José Pedro …[et al.] - O sentimento de Sísifo: experiências de não emprego subjetivadas por adultos sobre qualificados. Revista Portuguesa de Investigação Educacional. ISSN 1645-4006. N.º 10 (2011), p. 233-251http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/14049In contemporary Western societies, it seems that we are witnessing a worsening of the sense of uncertainty, a decrease of social cohesion and, simultaneously, an increase of vocational alternatives and possibilities of choice. Th e goal of this project is then related to the way that graduated adults perceive themselves when facing non-employment situations, that is, when they cannot obtain an employment in their qualifi cation level and/or training area. In addition, we try to understand what are the strategies implemented by individuals to deal with these developmental transitions. We believe this work has scientifi c relevance, because it is about an understudied problem in Portugal, and social pertinence, also, given the fact that it refers to a signifi cant set of unemployed people, to which we must add the numbers of “inactive” (available and discouraged) and underemployment (visible and perceived) that are not part of the offi cial statistics.porOverqualifi cationHigher educationEmploymentAdult education and trainingjournal article