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Adequacy of TCC Training: Employer Ratings & Job Performance

This report assesses the adequacy of Technical and Career Center (TCC) training based on employer ratings in knowledge, skills, and professional behaviors. The findings indicate high satisfaction in technical skills, knowledge, and math skills, while areas like creative thinking and problem-solving may require improvement. Overall, employers rate TCC highly in both occupational/technical and general education training, with a positive readiness to employ TCC graduates in the future, barring a few exceptions. The report offers insights into enhancing TCC training programs for better outcomes.

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Adequacy of TCC Training: Employer Ratings & Job Performance

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  1. OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS September 2008

  2. Adequacy of TCC Training: Knowledge and Skills How adequately did the employee’s TCC training prepare him/her in the following areas?

  3. Adequacy of TCC Training: Knowledge and Skills • Across the board, employers gave high ratings to all knowledge and skill categories. The technical areas, especially, received high ratings: Technical Skills and Technical Knowledge both were rated as “adequate” or “more than adequate” by 98% of respondents. • Math skills have improved over the previous years. Historically, math skills have received some of the lowest ratings, but in spring 2007, 97% of respondents rated math skills as “adequate” or “more than adequate”. • The only categories which were rated as “adequate” or “more than adequate” by less than 95% of the respondents were Thinking Creatively (93%) and Solving Problems (88%).

  4. Ratings of Employee: Professional Behaviors Please rate the employee on the following professional behaviors:

  5. Ratings of Employee: Professional Behaviors • At least 90% of all respondents rated all professional behaviors as “adequate.” • The two behaviors which deal most with interpersonal relations—Cooperation with Others and Dependability— received the highest ratings. • Decision-Making Skills, which has historically been rated somewhat lower than the others, received “needs improvement” ratings more often than the other behaviors.

  6. Evaluation of TCC Education: Occupational/Technical Training Overall, how would you rate TCC with respect to occupational/technical training?* *Ratings from employers of graduates in occupational/technical programs only

  7. Evaluation of TCC Education: General Education Overall, how would you rate TCC with respect to providing general education?

  8. Evaluation of TCC Education: Occupational/Technical Training and General Education • Overall, TCC was rated as “excellent” or “good” by 94% of the respondents with respect to occupational/technical training and by 91% of the respondents with respect to general education. • With respect to general education, employers of graduates from college transfer programs tended to provide higher ratings more often than employers of graduates from occupational/technical programs.

  9. Overall Evaluation of Job Performance In general, your overall rating of the employee’s job performance is:

  10. Readiness to Employ TCC Graduates in the Future • An overwhelming majority of employers (97%) stated that they would hire another TCC graduate in the future, if possible. • Only three employers reported that they would not hire another graduate from the same program. Of these, two explained that they preferred the employee to have a bachelor’s degree.

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