The first cut of results from our 2012 Career Development Survey.

1. Career Development Survey
Results

2. Career Development Survey Results
In April 2012 Careergro commissioned What Goes
Around Limited and BrubakerHR to survey employers
and employees on their views about career
development as part of our on going work into career
development in the UK. 24 employers and 53
employees participated and the following slides show
their responses. The survey was designed to be brief
and as such is intended to provide top level findings,
rather than a detailed analysis.

3. How Satisfied are you With Career Development
in Your Organisation?
50%
40% 37%
30%
30% 26% 27% 26%
24% Employee
Employer
20%
12%
9% 9%
10%
0%
0%
Very satisfied Satisfied Neither Dissatisfied Very Dissatisfied

4. Do You Have the Tools You Need to Keep Track
of Career Development?
100%
80%
59% 61%
60%
Employee
41% 39% Employer
40%
20%
0%
Yes No

5. How commited are you/your employees to
Career Development Goals?
60%
52%
50%
43%
40% 36% 35%
Employee
30%
Employer
21%
20%
9%
10%
4%
0%
0%
Fully Mostly Somewhat Not at all

6. What is the Frequency of Career Development
Conversations with Manager?
50%
40% 36%
31% 32%
30%
Employee
22%
Employer
20% 17% 17%
14% 13%
11%
10% 7%
0%
Less than Annually Half yearly Quarterly More frequently
annually

7. Preferred Learning Methods
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Learning
Further
On the Job Training through Attending
Mentoring Coaching Reading eLearning Study (e.g. Networking
Learning Courses Social Conferences
MBA)
Media
Employee 80.8 75 17.3 38.5 36.5 50 30.8 48.1 55.8 34.6
Employer 82.6 87 8.7 60.9 52.2 39.1 34.8 39.1 52.2 43.5

8. Online Career Development That
Works
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