Training Employees
» Training Employees, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2005
Think of the employees who fill the most common 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:?
16M. (job skill) The ability to follow directions.
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Must have when hired | 61 | ||
| 2 | 14 | |||
| 3 | 7 | |||
| 4 | 7 | |||
| 5 | Learn on-the-job | 12 | ||
| 6 | Don’t need the skill | 0 | ||
| 7 | DK/Refused | 0 | ||
| Total (%) | 101 | |||
| N | 384 | |||
Notes: Sixty-one (61) percent of small employers (employing 5 to 250 people) expect employees in their most common job, when hired, to have all the ability to follow directions they will need (Q#16M).
