Recruitment and Retention in the Post-16 Learning and Skills Sector

6 WORKING IN THE SECTOR6.1 This section looks at characteristics of individuals working in the sectorand issues facing them. These issues have an impact both onrecruitment in the sense that people choose whether they want to workin such a sector and on retention affecting whether people want to stayin the sector. Issues are organised under the following headings:• working practices;• amount of work;• resources and facilities;• future plans.Working Practices6.2 One in ten members of the workforce (546 respondents) does otherregular paid work in addition to their main job. Most of those (72%, or7% of the main sample) have one additional job.6.3 Just under a third of respondents with multiple jobs indicated that theywork between 35 and 40 hours per week, including additional teachingor teaching related jobs (Table 6.1). Over a third of respondents work34 hours or less per week and a further third (34%) work 41 hours ormore a week. Those with management responsibilities were more likelyto work longer hours.Table 6.1: How many hours in a standard working week do you usuallywork in total, including other jobs?%15 or less 916 – 24 1125 – 30 1131 – 34 435 – 40 3041 – 48 1848 or more 16Base: 546 respondents, who have multiple jobsSource: YCL/MORI quantitative survey of teaching/training staff, 20056.4 In general, respondents had a wide range of experience both with theircurrent employer and across the sector more generally (Figure 6.1).Around one-half of teachers/trainers (49%) had worked for their currentorganisation for five or more years and 47% had ten or more year’sexperience of working in the sector more generally.50