RISE - Analysing your survey data - Step 3

Introduction

The purpose of this section is to understand the career intentions of your department. These results can often be very varied between different staff within the department. The Action Plan section will have additional guidance of what to focus on and how to deal with a range of scenarios.

Note that not all scores will total 100% as some are ‘not applicable’.

3A. Looking at strengths

Which three career intention statements score the highest?

Is this what you expected? Does it surprise you? Can you explain any of these scores?

3B. Looking for areas of development

Which three career intention statements score the lowest?

3C. Comparing your data with the cohort data

Providing you have a response rate of around 80% for your department, you should be able to make some tentative comparisons with the cohort data. Look at the ranked scores and the actual percentages.

Ranked

How does the ranking of your department (top to bottom) compare with the cohort (top to bottom). Are there significant difference? e.g. two or more places (up or down)?

Percentage comparison

This may only be possible with high response rates and larger departments (10+).

Are these scores for each job satisfaction statement inline with or significantly higher or lower than the cohort data?

Is this what you expected? Does it surprise you? Can you explain any of these scores?