Citation  | European Commission (2011): Flash Eurobarometer 304 (Employers’ Perception of Graduate Employability). The GALLUP Organisation, Brussels. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5447 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.10241 |
| Study No. | ZA5447 |
| Title | Flash Eurobarometer 304 (Employers’ Perception of Graduate Employability) |
| Current Version | 1.0.0, 2011-2-2, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.10241 |
| Date of Collection | 30.08.2010 - 07.09.2010 |
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| Abstract | Employment and employability of higher education graduates. Skills assessment. Cooperation with higher education institutions. Topics: 1. Employment of graduates: percentage of higher education graduates in the company; most represented educational fields. 2. Skills: skills assessment with regard to job requirements; importance of selected skills regarding recruitment of higher education graduates: good with numbers, good reading and writing skills, foreign language skills, computer skills, sector specific skills, communication skills, analytical and problem solving skills, ability to adapt to new situations, decision-making skills, team-working skills, planning and organisational skills; satisfaction with recruited graduates in terms of the aforementioned skills; most required level of graduate; awareness of the difference between bachelor’s and master’s degree; kind of training activities of higher education graduates in the company: in-house, short courses in universities or other higher education institutions, part-time study programmes in universities or other higher education institutions, training in educational institutions, distance learning, other; percentage of employees with higher education degrees in training activities in the last two years. 3. Recruitment: importance of selected factors with regard to the recruitment of graduates: anticipated growth, actual growth, higher turnover of staff, increasing complexity of tasks, higher number of applicants; percentage of higher education graduates recruited from other EU countries and from countries outside the EU; reasons for (not) recruiting graduates from outside the own country; importance of the following skills: work experience, studies abroad, internship abroad. 4. Filling of vacancies: most important challenges. 5. Cooperation with higher education institutions: frequency of cooperation with regard to curriculum design and study programmes; importance of these cooperations; frequency of cooperation with regard to graduate recruitment; best ways of cooperation; preferred actions of higher education institutions in order to improve graduate employability. Demography: number of employees; recruitment of higher education graduates in the last five years and / or considerations to do so in the next five years; ownership structure; main activity of the company; percentage of day-to-day operations dealing with people in or from other countries; position of respondent at the company. Additionally coded was: interview ID; interviewer ID; language of the interview; country; date of interview; time of the beginning of the interview; duration of the interview; type of phone line; call history; weighting factor. |
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| Universe | Companies in the private and public sector, excluding the agriculture and educational sector, employing 50 or more persons, operating in the 27 Member States of the European Union, in Croatia, Turkey, Iceland and Norway |
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Probability Sample
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Telephone interview
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| Data Collector | GALLUP EUROPE, Brussels, Belgium; FOCUS AGENCY, Prague, Czech Republic; NORSTAT DENMARK, Copenhagen, Denmark; IFAK, Taunusstein, Germany; SAAR POLL, Tallinn, Estonia; METRON ANALYSIS, Athens, Greece; GALLUP SPAIN, Madrid, Spain; EFFICIENCE3, Reims, France; GALLUP UK, Dublin, Ireland; DEMOSKOPEA, Rome, Italy; CYMAR, Nicosia, Cyprus; LATVIAN FACTS, Riga, Latvia; BALTIC SURVEY, Vilnius, Lithuania; GALLUP EUROPE, Luxembourg, Luxembourg; GALLUP HUNGARY, Budapest, Hungary; MISCO, Valletta, Malta; MSR, Naarden, Netherlands; SPECTRA, Linz, Austria; GALLUP POLAND, Warsaw, Poland; CONSULMARK, Lisbon, Portugal; CATI d.o.o, Ljubljana, Slovenia; FOCUS AGENCY, Bratislava, Slovakia; NORSTAT FINLAND OY, Pori, Finland; NORSTAT SWEDEN, Linköping, Sweden; GALLUP UK, London, United Kingdom; VITOSHA, Sofia, Bulgaria; GALLUP ROMANIA, Bucharest, Romania; GALLUP CROATIA, Zagreb, Croatia; KONSENSUS, Istanbul, Turkey; FIELDWORK SCANDINAVIA, Oslo, Norway; IGM, Reykjavík, Iceland; The GALLUP Organisation, Brussels / The GALLUP Organisation, Hungary (international co-ordination) |
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