Training Employees
» Training Employees, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2005
If respondent expects to provide at least some training to the most common employee.
18. How long does it typically take to bring such a person’s skills up to a satisfactory level?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two weeks or less | 20 | ||
| 2 | Two weeks up to one month | 17 | ||
| 3 | One month up to three months | 19 | ||
| 4 | Three months up to one year | 35 | ||
| 5 | > One year | 9 | ||
| 6 | DK/Refuse | 0 | ||
| Total (%) | 100 | |||
| N | 372 | |||
Notes: Twenty (20) percent of small employers (employing 5 to 250 people) who train employees in their most common job report that it typically takes about two weeks to bring the skills of a new hire in the most common job up to a satisfactory level (Q#18).
