Employer Survey

Thank you for taking time to complete this survey. Red Lake Nation College is seeking opinions regarding community college graduates entering the workplace. Your opinions will help us better understand how colleges are preparing their graduates for work.

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* 1. What best describes your role in hiring employees at your organization?

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* 2. Does your organization hire recent college graduate who have earned an associate's degree (i.e. within three years of their graduation)?

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* 3. What industry does your organization primarily serve?

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* 4. Approximately how many people does your organization employ?

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* 5. Most of your employees travel how many miles on average to work.

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* 6. Over the past few years, what percentage of your organization's or unit's hires are recent college graduates with associate's degrees?

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* 7. Does your organization ever hire a candidate with strong experience but no degree for a job that was advertised as requiring an associate's degree?

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* 8. How important is a recent college graduate's major to your organization when you hire?

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* 9. What are the top three majors you consider for your hires?

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* 10. In your opinion, is an associate's degree worth more or less in today's job market than it was five years ago?

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* 11. Students unable to find work in their chosen fields make other choices out of necessity. What impact does each of the following choices have on your evaluation of a candidate's resume?

  Negative Impact No Impact on Evaluation Positive Impact
Unpaid internship in a related field.
Volunteer work in a community organization or nonprofit.
Employment in a job unrelated to career path.
No employment
Enrollment in a undergraduate, graduate, or certification program.

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* 12. Please indicate the relative balance you would give to academic credentials versus experience for a recent college graduate seeking a position at your organization.

  Experience far more important   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Academics far more important 10
Balance:

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* 13. How much weight do you give each of the following education credentials when you evaluate a recent college graduate's resume? Please assign a percentage from 0 to 100. Your responses must add up to 100%; if an item is not important at all, assign it a value of 0.

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* 14. How much weight do you give each of the following types of experiences when you evaluate a recent college graduate's resume to see if further discussions are warranted? Please assign a percentage from 0 to 100. Your responses must add up to 100%; if an item is not important at all, assign it a value of 0.

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* 15. Do you investigate a job candidate's online presence as part of your evaluation?

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* 16. Which of the following do you do in evaluating job candidate's online presence? Check as many as apply.

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* 17. On the whole, how well prepared are recent community college graduates for a job search?

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* 18. What could recent community college graduates do to be better prepared for a job search? Check all that apply.

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* 19. How difficult is it to find recent community college graduates who are qualified for jobs at your organization?

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* 20. Please tell us the five most important skills that recent college graduates seeking positions at your organization need to be successful. Select up to five.

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* 21. What are the top five skills that recent college graduates seeking positions at your organization possess? Select up to five.

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* 22. What are the top five skill areas that community colleges are responsible for developing in their graduates?

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* 23. Please rate how well community colleges are doing in producing employees who are successful in your organization.

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