DLHE - section B

Q3

What was your job title?

Q4

Briefly describe your duties

e.g. maintaining and updating company intranet

Q5

Which of the following best describes the basis on which you were employed on 14 April 2008?

On a permanent or open-ended contract

On a fixed-term contract lasting 12 months or longer

On a fixed-term contract lasting less than 12 months

Self-employed/freelance (tick self-employed/freelance if you ticked this at Q1)

Temporarily, through an agency

Temporarily, other than through an agency

Other

Q6

What was your annual pay to the nearest thousand (£), before tax? If you were employed for less than a year or were part-time, please estimate your pay to the full-time annual equivalent.

£ I do not wish to give this information

Q7

What is the name of the organisation you were working for?

Q8

Is this organisation part of the NHS?

Yes No Don't know

Q9

What does the organisation you were working for mainly do?

(e.g. manufactures shoes or sells shoes)

Q10

Where was your place of work (town/area/country) and, if in the UK, what is its postcode?

Where: Postcode:

Q11

Approximately how many people work in the entire organisation (i.e. all branches, depts etc.)?

1 to 49 50 to 249 250 or more Don't know

Q12

Would you have been able to get the job you were doing on 14 April 2008 without the qualification you recently obtained (the actual qualification, not the subject of study)?

No: the qualification was a formal requirement/expected

Possibly: but the qualification did give me an advantage

Yes Go to Q14

Don't know Go to Q14

Q13

As far as you are aware, what was more important to your employer about your qualification: the subject(s) you studied or the level of study?

The subject(s) studied

The level of study

Both were equally important

Don't know

Q14

Why did you decide to take the job you were doing on 14 April 2008?

(Please tick all that apply)

It fitted into my career plan/it was exactly the type of work I wanted

It was the best job offer I received/only job offer I received

It was an opportunity to progress in the organisation

To see if I would like the type of work it involved

To gain and broaden my experience in order to get the type of job I really want

In order to earn a living/pay off debts

It was in the right location

The job was well-paid

Q15

How did you find out about this job?

Own institution’s Careers Service

Newspaper/magazine advertisement

Employer’s website

Recruitment agency/website

Personal contacts, including family and friends, networking

Speculative application

Already worked there

Don't remember

Other

Q16

Thinking still about your employer on 14 April 2008: did you work for this employer before or during the programme of study you recently completed?

Yes - before my programme of study

Yes - during my programme of study

Yes - both before and during my programme of study

No GO TO SECTION C

Q17

In which of the ways listed below did you work for this employer?

(Please tick all that apply)

On a training/sandwich placement

On another kind of placement or project work

As a holiday job

Full-time or part-time work all year round

Full-time or part-time work during term time

In other ways

Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education 2007/08

Section B

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