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The questionnaire contains 49 questions and is designed to be very quick to complete. Please answer each question based on your whole time at university. All answers will remain entirely confidential and any results are only used at a group level so that no individual can be recognised from the responses.
Please complete in one sitting, you cannot come back to it, answers are only saved at the end when clicking 'finish survey'. If you have any queries about the survey, please email Tim Wise at tim.wise@highfliers.co.uk.
All your responses in this questionnaire will remain confidential.
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1. Please give your gender, race and the company you are joining (or have joined) as a graduate
2. What type of job will you be doing with this employer?
3. What type of contract do you have?
4. Where is your new role based?
5. Did you have to relocate for your new job?
6. What were your main reasons for joining the organisation?
7. Which university are you currently attending or did you go to?
Other, please state:
8. Which factors influenced your choice of university?
9. Please indicate the degree qualifications you have obtained or are obtaining at university.
10. How did you undertake your degree studies?
11. Which of the following financial situations applied to your time at university?
12. What was the total level of debt that you left, or will leave, university with?
13. Which of the following activities have you experienced during your time at university, either in person or virtual?
14. What degree(s) or disciplines did you study or are you studying?
15. When will/did you finish your degree?
16. When will/did you start your new job?
17a. Irrespective of the degree you are studying for, and who you are working for, if you had the appropriate qualifications and experience, which employer would you most aspire to work for?
b. How long have you aspired to work for this employer?
c. What are your main reasons for aspiring to work for this employer?
d. Did you apply to this employer?
18. While studying at university, what is the total amount of work experience you’ve had (either in person or virtual) which is directly relevant to your new position? e.g. vacation work, virtual internships etc.
19. Have you previously worked for the organisation (either in person or virtual) whose graduate program you have, or will be, joining?
b. What type of work experience (either in person or virtual) have you had with your employer?
20. When did you start researching employers?
21. What were your main reasons for applying to work in the industry you are in now?
22. Which of these sites do you use regularly?
Please list any other sites you use:
23. How useful did you find the following while conducting your job search?
24. Which employer do you think had the highest profile at your university?
25. Which employer do you think had the best graduate recruitment website?
26. Which employer do you think had the best graduate recruitment literature (either hard copy or digital)?
27. Which employer do you think had the best online media campaign? (this includes networking sites, job boards etc.)
28. Which employer do you think had the best integrated graduate recruitment campaign? (ie: best campaign using all media channels)
29. Please name the one representative, and the company they belong to, who made the most positive impression on you during your job search.
30. Which employer(s) do you believe offers the best graduate program in each of the following sectors?
31. When you were deciding which employers to apply to, how important were the following?
32. How many graduate applications did you make?
33. How many graduate job offers did you receive?
34. How long was the recruitment process for the organisation you are joining (from closing date to offer)?
35. How long was it between your final interview with your new employer and being made an offer?
36. How long were you given between receiving the offer from your new employer and having to make the decision to accept or reject it?
37. Which employer had the best recruitment process (aside from being offered a job)?
Why is that?
38. During your job search, did you accept any job offers and subsequently decline them?
39. Was the employer you have joined your first choice when searching for a graduate job?
40a. How have your expectations been met by working here compared to what you thought it would be like prior to joining?
b. What has been different compared to your expectations?
41. How useful are the following employees in your support network?
42. Going forward, where will you seek out career development advice to support you professionally?
43. How long do you expect to stay with the organisation you have joined, or will be joining?
44. What factors would lead you to stay longer with the organisation you have joined, or will be joining?
45. Do you want to work internationally at some point in the future?
46. When considering working internationally, how appealing are the following regions?
47. How long do you expect to be working internationally?
48. Have you used AI in any of the following ways while applying for graduate jobs?
49. What have you found (or do you anticipate) to be the most challenging aspects of your transition to the world of work?
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