{"id":70567,"date":"2016-05-15T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=474829ef52367e80a9b992d3668c1784"},"modified":"2016-08-17T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T15:11:09","slug":"news-story-ukces-employer-perspectives-survey-2016-now-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=70567","title":{"rendered":"News story: UKCES&#8217; Employer Perspectives Survey 2016 concludes fieldwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Fieldwork has now concluded<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Employer Perspectives Survey 2016\">EPS16<\/abbr> survey consists of 18,000 telephone interviews with UK employers across all sectors and sizes. The survey collects employer views on methods of recruitment, skills initiatives and training currently on offer in the UK, and decisions to use them, or not. The information is used to inform national, regional and sector decisions about where and how to invest in the skills system to ensure it can meet the needs of these businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Research for the survey is being carried out between May and August 2016 by <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iffresearch.com\/index.php?id=home\">IFF Research<\/a> on behalf of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/uk-commission-for-employment-and-skills\">UK Commission for Employment and Skills (<abbr title=\"UK Commission for Employment and Skills\">UKCES<\/abbr>)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/bis\">Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/gov.wales\/?lang=en\">Welsh Government<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/\">Scottish Government<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.economy-ni.gov.uk\/\">Department for the Economy, Northern Ireland<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The success of the survey is dependent on the willingness of employers to take part. If selected, employers can choose a time that suits them to be interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a participant you can find more information here: <span id=\"attachment_1681806\" class=\"attachment-inline\"><br \/>\n  <a href=\"\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/523064\/EPS16_Q_A_Document_for_web_2.pdf\"><abbr title=\"Employer Perspectives Survey 2016\">EPS16<\/abbr>: Information for Participants<\/a><br \/>\n  (<span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>, <span class=\"file-size\">245KB<\/span>, <span class=\"page-length\">1 page<\/span>)<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions you can email <a href=\"mailto:EPS16@ukces.org.uk\"><abbr title=\"Employer Perspectives Survey 2016\">EPS16<\/abbr>@ukces.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) has concluded fieldwork for the 2016 Employer Perspectives Survey (EPS16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73316,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70567\/revisions\/73316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}