Training Employees
» Training Employees, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2005
If respondent expects their most skilled employee(s) to learn one or more job skills, at least partially, while on the job.
7. How long does it typically take to bring such a person’s skills up to a satisfactory level?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two weeks or less | 14 | ||
| 2 | Two weeks up to one month | 19 | ||
| 3 | One month up to three months | 10 | ||
| 4 | Three months up to one year | 43 | ||
| 5 | > One year | 14 | ||
| 6 | DK/Refuse | 0 | ||
| Total (%) | 100 | |||
| N | 347 | |||
Notes: Fourteen (14) percent of small employers (employing 5 to 250 people) who train their most skilled employee(s) report that it typically takes about two weeks to bring the skills of a new hire in the most skilled position up to a satisfactory level (Q#7).
