This study has undergone contemporary social issues regarding the Subject, the Labor and the Psychology from the perspective of Social Representations: the training of organizational psychologists at the Federal University of Pará. The research identified the Organizational Psychology from the perspective of undergraduate Psychology students at UFPA. The paradigmatic issues related to the area, the experiences of students in supervised internships, the issue of labor as a source of identity, the changes of post-modernity for the professional futures of the Organizational Psychology, as well as its market prospects were analyzed. The study had its theoretical basis centered mainly on Serge Moscovici (1978, 2001, 2005, 2007) and in the theory of Social Representations-SR, and also on Denise Jodelet (2001, 2005, 2009) with the procedural approach to Social Representations. The SRs were inserted as the foundational thematic theory, which observed everyday relationships from the perspective of human communications that formed representations for proposing a new perspective of Social Psychology. Qualitative research and the use of the Underlying Discourse Unveiling Method (UDUM) were the procedures used for data collecting and analysis. The analysis of representations showed the various difficulties faced by students seeking internships: the replacement of apprenticeship activities for specific research on the world of labor and academic online exercises, through the Internet; such knowledge was considered inadequate and inappropriate substitutes to students in training; the desire to differentiate the standards established in the area of the organizational psychology was also informed, that is, of the distorted view of psychologists who were working on companies but did not care for the workers. On the professional practice issue, the attempt by the teachers to replace the internship for other activities involved a breach of a commitment to teaching with the interdisciplinary bias and practical nature, as stated in the curriculum guidelines for undergraduate courses of the institution. They felt helpless and unprepared to act in the market and quite concerned with the requirements of this area. However, they glimpsed possibilities when suggesting that this field would present innovative and constantly updated potentialities, in which the role of the university would be essential as well as the preparation of teachers to building an organizational psychology and ethical commitment, which would emerge from the concrete practice of future psychologists formed by the institution.
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