The new survey will provide the team with a valuable insight into the needs of local businesses before they launch a number of key skills projects. Mark Cooper, Skills and Business Growth Lead for the LEP, explains: “We are at a point where we have real influence over the delivery of vocational education and awareness of young people of the world of work. We also have several key projects that aim to pump-prime business-led skills provision throughout our area. So now is the ideal time for us to be going out and finding out more about local businesses skills needs and their take on the current provision.”
The Skills Survey builds upon the data that the LEP has already gathered about the makeup of the local business community in terms of the different sectors, business sizes and more. The team also has access to real-time Labour Market Information, which is driven by an analysis of current online job advertisements. However, what this data doesn’t tell us is what businesses really think and need.
To achieve this, the LEP Skills Survey has been built on two levels. First, the LEP are calling upon local businesses – like you – to complete a short online survey to give your views on the current local skills offer and your own business requirements. Second, the LEP team will be pro-actively targeting specific sectors, which are important in growth terms to GCGP, with a telephone survey. These sectors change depending on where they are in our area in order to cover the differences in the geography. For instance Food Manufacturing is important in some areas but not others.
Please complete the survey online here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LEPSkills
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