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TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE
2006-07 EMPLOYER SURVEY ))
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OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
September 2008
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Adequacy of TCC Training: Knowledge and Skills
How adequately did the employee’s TCC training prepare him/her in the following areas?
39% 52%
40% 41% 47% 39% 39% 43% 44%
54% 44%
48% 58% 47% 59% 59% 52% 53%
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
Adequate More Than Adequate
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Adequacy of TCC Training: Knowledge and Skills
• Across the board, employers gave high ratings to all knowledge and skill categories. The technical areas, especially, received highratings: Technical Skills and Technical Knowledge both were rated as “adequate” or “more than adequate” by 98% of respondents.
• Math skills have improved over the previous years. Historically, math skills have received some of the lowest ratings, but in spring 2007,97% of respondents rated math skills as “adequate” or “more than adequate”.
• The only categories which were rated as “adequate” or “more than adequate” by less than 95% of the respondents were Thinking Creatively (93%) and Solving Problems (88%).
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Ratings of Employee: Professional Behaviors
Please rate the employee on the following professional behaviors:
Professional Behaviors Rated "Adequate"
90% 97%95%98%
50%
75%
100%
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Ratings of Employee: Professional Behaviors
• At least 90% of all respondents rated all professional behaviors as “adequate.”
• The two behaviors which deal most with interpersonal relations— Cooperation with Others and Dependability— received the highestratings.
• Decision-Making Skills, which has historically been rated somewhat lower than the others, received “needs improvement” ratings more often than the other behaviors.
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Evaluation of TCC Education: Occupational/Technical Training
Overall, how would you rate TCC with respect to occupational/technical training?*
60% 52%
50% 42%
40%
30%
20%
10% 4% 2% 0%
Excellent Good Average Poor
*Ratings from employers of graduates in occupational/technical programs only
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Evaluation of TCC Education: General Education
Overall, how would you rate TCC with respect to providing general education?
College Transfer Occu/Tech
58%
35%
6% 0%
45% 43%
11%
0% 0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Excellent (Total: 51%) Good (Total: 40%) Average (Total: 9%) Poor
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Evaluation of TCC Education: Occupational/Technical Training and General Education
• Overall, TCC was rated as “excellent” or “good” by 94% of the respondents with respect to occupational/technical training and by 91% of the respondents with respect to general education.
• With respect to general education, employers of graduates from college transfer programs tended to provide higher ratings more often than employers of graduates from occupational/technical programs.
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Overall Evaluation of Job Performance
In general, your overall rating of the employee’s job performance is:
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
58%
34%
8%
0%
Excellent Good Average Poor
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Readiness to Employ TCC Graduates in the Future
• An overwhelming majority of employers (97%) stated that they would hire another TCC graduate in the future, if possible.
• Only three employers reported that they would not hire another graduate from the same program. Of these, two explained that they preferred the employee to have a bachelor’s degree.