ISE’s development survey shows the tactics used by employers to develop entry-level talent.
Many different methods can be used to help graduates and school and college leavers to develop the skills that employers want.
Those on graduate programmes receive an average of 23 days training a year, while the typical school and college leaver programme includes around 52 days training annually.
How employers develop early talent is explored in our annual student development report. The 2022 survey is currently live and closes on 3 February, so please take the time to complete it at ISE 2022 Development Survey.
Below are some of the findings from the ISE 2021 ISE Development Survey, which show the tactics employers use to develop graduates and school and college leavers.
The charts are interactive, so you can explore the data for graduates and non-graduates yourself, filtering by your sector of interest.
What tactics do employers use to develop graduates?
Most organisations seem to use a wide range of different techniques in conjunction to develop graduates. Apart from external secondments and outdoor learning, all of the other options were selected by at least half of the respondents.
The mostly commonly reported development technique was online learning, used by 85% of organisations who responded to the survey, followed by senior leader engagement (81%), classroom learning (77%) and mentoring and tutoring (77%).
There are some common trends between sectors with the above techniques often among the most prevalent, while outdoor learning and external secondments were fairly consistently among the least used.
What tactics do employers use to develop school and college leavers?
The development tactics used most for school and college leavers were similar to those for graduates, with online learning (76%), classroom learning (70%) and mentoring and tutoring (64%) all very common.
However, there is more of an emphasis on dedicated self study time than for graduates with 71% of organisations using this. As with graduates, the methods used least often were outdoor learning (17%) and external secondments (11%).
These figures are based on data from 150 employers of graduates and 87 employers of non-graduates.
Please complete our 2022 Development Survey The report will be published in March 2022, and it will be interesting to see if there has been a shift in the techniques used to develop early career staff over the last year where some organisations have restarted face-to-face interactions.
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