Deaf disability and employment in Brasilia: professional opportunity in event market

Abstract

This research paper's main objective is to analyze the employability for people with deaf disability in Brasilia, as a professional opportunity in the event market. The research highlights the variety of jobs, which could be performed by people with deaf disability, considering the event type proposed. The specific objectives were bounded as follows: to conceptualize the events and characterize the market employability; to identify and to present the placements inside the events for deaf disability. In order to reach those objectives, qualitative research has been performed involving a group of seven people with deaf disability, with almost none experience on Event Management tasks and six event management producers in Brasilia. In order to achieve the proposed objectives of this research, questionnaires were applied with ten objective questions and a subjective one via email with the questionnaire in Word to the event producers, and questionnaires for the deaf were applied in Libras via video and also via google forms, containing sixteen objective questions, which were submitted to data and discourse analysis using the Iramuteq software. Thoroughly observing the answers from both groups, a large opportunity to increase the job market in the event management areas in Brasilia has been identified.