Training Employees
» Training Employees, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2005
Think of the employees who fill the most skilled job.
On a scale of one-to-five, where 1 means the employee MUST have such job skills when hired and 5 means you expect the employee to learn them on the job, what skills do you expect the employee to have when hired? If they do not need a skill for the job, just say so. How about:?
5B. (job skill) The operating procedures used in your business.
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Must have when hired | 21 | ||
| 2 | 16 | |||
| 3 | 24 | |||
| 4 | 13 | |||
| 5 | Learn on-the-job | 26 | ||
| 6 | Don't need the skill | 1 | ||
| 7 | DK/Refused | 0 | ||
| Total (%) | 101 | |||
| N | 368 | |||
Notes: Twenty-one (21) percent of small employers (employing 5 to 250 people) expect that employees in their most skilled job, when hired, will know the operating procedures used in the business (Q#5B).
