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

Staff Who Have Considered Leaving6.20 Approximately two-fifths of respondents (42%) reported that they hadconsidered leaving their current employment during the last six months.However, only one-third of these had actually applied for other jobsduring the previous six months. This represents 14% of the totalsample.6.21 Figure 6.6 presents the percentage of respondents who have applied forother jobs, by type of organisation. Staff working in further educationcolleges, adult and community learning services and privateorganisations are more likely to have applied for other jobs than thoseworking in other organisations.Figure 6.6: Respondents who had applied for other jobs, bytype of organisationPrivate training36ACL34FE college34In-house training30Voluntary sector28Sixth form250 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40Base: All 5492 respondentsSource: YCL/MORI quantitative survey of teaching/training staff, 20056.22 Staff who were dissatisfied with their job were more likely to haveapplied for other jobs (47% of respondents who had considered leavingtheir job) than those who were satisfied (29%).6.23 Responses by age are similar except for the older age group. 15% ofthe total sample aged 18 to 44 had applied for other jobs and 16% ofthose aged 45 to 54. Although, only 7% of those over 55 had done so.Respondents from black and minority ethnic groups were also morelikely to have applied for other jobs (17% of the total sample) than whitepersons (14%).57