The Career Development Institute and International Centre for Guidance Studies at the University of Derby are carrying out research into the current and future skills needs of the career development sector.
 
We are particularly keen to connect with employers who recruit and employ career development practitioners.

We would value 5-10 minutes of your time to complete this survey. There are a small number of questions, many with multiple choice options so your time commitment is minimal. We hold all information in confidence and report results in aggregate, in a manner in which ensures individuals cannot be identified; by completing this survey you are giving your consent to participate in this research.

Many thanks for your help. We intend to publish a report and share our findings through Career Matters magazine.

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* 1. Where is your organisation based?

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* 2. How many people does your company employ?

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* 3. Please indicate the focus of your client services

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* 4. Which of these best describe the skills base of the career development practitioners in your company?

  True  Not true  True for some roles
We have an ageing workforce
We have a lot of people leave to work for other similar employers
We have a lot of people leave to work in a different sector
We are not recruiting and have recently made redundancies
We have people who could develop higher level skills and grow in the role
We have people who need to upskill due to changes in technology / work practices etc
Our workforce is stable and we don't have much need for recruitment
The people we promote into supervisory or management roles lack management skills
There is a shortage of people with the right skills for our vacancies
There are people from other sectors who have some, but not all, of the skills we need

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* 5. Please identify the number of career development practitioners you employ -

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* 6. Please identify the job roles you experience difficulties in recruiting.

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* 7. Please identify any specific recruitment issues below.

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* 8. What are the three most important issues facing the skills base of your workforce?

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* 9. Are you able to access the training/support to help you in developing your workforce within the following area?

  We have no need of this  We are able to We are unable to
Skills to enable staff to adapt to working digitally
Skills to retrain staff who are moving into the sector
Advanced interviewing skills
Career management skills
Using LMI in guidance
Reflective practice
Resilience
Management and leadership Skills
Other, please specify

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* 10. How do you feel about being able to ensure having the right skills now and in the future?

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* 11. Is there any training provision which you are struggling to access or where current provision does not meet your needs?

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* 12. Would you be prepared to talk to us further in more depth about this?

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* 13. In order for us to make contact please provide your name?

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* 14. What is your role / position?

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* 15. What is the name of your company?

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* 16. Please supply your email address

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* 17. Please supply a contact phone number

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