[Insertion of graduate nursing professionals from a public university in a metropolitan, industrial area of the State of São Paulo (Grande ABC) in the labor market].

To investigate with Nursing graduates from UniABC the way in which they entered the labor market a descriptive, retrospective, exploratory study was performed. Answers from 80 former students indicated that they are young adults, female, single, with no children, having previously worked in the health area. Many of them held a diploma of Nursing Specialist and were participating in continuous education courses. Their insertion in the labor market was fast and most of them had took part in public job contests and succeeded. They have about one or two jobs in the public sector, in the city where the main university campus is located. They carry out health care functions and their pay is one and a half to three times a salary perceived by a professional in their area. Most of them is not affiliated to their section entities.