GENERAL QUESTIONS

BACKGROUND

The Visual Media Association (VMA) continues to lobby the government and represent industry across skills and training.

Considering the long-term trend of declining completion rates and skill shortages across the Australian economy, the Government has decided to commission a Strategic Review of the Apprenticeship Incentive System to ensure that incentives and other non-financial support are designed to optimise completion rates and address skill shortages to provide the skilled workers needed for Australia’s growing economy.

The scope of this review seeks to include detailed inputs through industry consultation. Therefore, we are seeking member and industry feedback via this survey to advocate our industry’s actual position, our future requirements and suggested improvements to the current incentive system. We would greatly appreciate if members can provide answers to the following questions for that purpose.

The survey should take approximately 11 minutes.

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* 1. How many employees does your business employ? (please tick the appropriate box):

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* 2. From the following list of occupations, how many does your business employ? (please insert the numbers in each appropriate boxes):

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* 3. How many of your trade based employees identify as female, male, non-binary or other?

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* 4. Do you have, or have you previously, employed women in a trade-based occupation within your business?

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* 5. Does your business currently have vacancies for any of the listed occupations in question No. 2 within your business?

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* 6. If you answered yes to the previous question, how long have those positions remained vacant or vacant prior to filling the role? (please tick appropriate box):

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* 7. For which of the following occupations do those vacancy periods relate? (please tick appropriate boxes):

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* 8. Looking to the future, and for business reasons such as employee retirement, business diversification and growth, how long do you believe your business will need to employ into the listed occupations in the next number of years? (please tick appropriate box):

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* 9. For which of the following occupations will your business likely need to employ? (please tick appropriate boxes):

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* 10. Does your business advertise job vacancies via online platforms such as SEEK, CareerOne or LinkedIn?

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* 11. Are you registered and do you utilise the job active/workforce Australia government employment service in your search for candidates?

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* 12. Using the last time you advertised a job vacancy via an online platform as an example, how long did it take before getting a response to that advertisement? (please tick appropriate box):

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* 13. Using the last time you advertised a job vacancy via an online platform as an example, how many applicants responded to that advertisement via the online platform:

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* 14. If you advertise job vacancies via online employment platforms, are you generally content with the skills and experience level of the applicants that you receive?

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* 15. If you do not, or no longer, advertise job vacancies via online platforms please provide details of why you do not use those platforms.

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* 16. If you do not advertise job vacancies via online platforms, how do you usually source candidates for job vacancies at your business?

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