TIGA Skills and Education Survey 24
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE RESULTS OF THIS SURVEY WILL BE ANONYMISED. INDIVIDUAL ANSWERS WILL NOT BE MADE PUBLIC, but the aggregated answers will.
What is the name of your company?
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Which of the following types of training, if any, does your organisation provide for its employees? Please tick as many of the following options that apply:
On-the-job training not leading to qualifications
Formal courses, both in-house and external, not leading to qualifications
Professional qualifications (e.g. accountancy examinations, CIPD qualifications etc.)
Vocational training leading to BTECs qualifications
Vocational training leading to T-Level qualifications
Vocational training leading Apprenticeship qualifications
Other
Approximately how many days does an average member of your team spend on training – including on-the-job training - per annum? Please give a specific number of days.
Over the last 12 months, how has your company found filling any vacancies in its workforce? Please tick one of the following options:
Very easy
Fairly easy
Fairly difficult
Very difficult
No vacancies / not tried to fill vacancies
Other
If you found it ‘very difficult’ or ‘fairly difficult’ to fill vacancies over the last year, please answer the following question. Using a scale of 1 to 5, where 5 is ‘A Great Deal’ and 1 is ‘Not At All’, please rate the extent to which each of the following factors has contributed to the difficulty of filling vacancies:
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2
3
4
5
A shortage of applicants with the required skills, experience or qualifications
Poor image of the industry
Location of company
Cost of recruitment (advertising, agency fees, etc)
Inability to offer sufficiently attractive terms and conditions of employment
Poaching of skilled staff by other businesses in the UK
Poaching of skilled staff by other businesses based outside of the UK
If you found it ‘very difficult’ or ‘fairly difficult’ to fill vacancies over the last year, which of the following types of vacancies have you found hard to fill? Please tick as many as apply.
Art
Audio
Community Management
Consumer Support
Data Science
Design
Marketing
Programming
Production
Quality Assurance
Would you say the difficulty of filling vacancies has had any of the following effects on your business over the past year? Please tick as many of the following options that apply:
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Yes
No
Don't Know
Business orders lost to competitors
Hindered growth of the organisation
Delays in developing new products/services
Increased operating costs
Difficulties in introducing new working practices
Increased workload for other staff
A greater need to outsource work
Which of the following actions, if any, is your organisation undertaking to overcome the difficulties you have faced filling vacancies? Please tick as many of the following options as apply:
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Yes
No
Don't Know
Increasing salaries
Increasing the training given to your existing workforce
Internal promotions
Redefining existing jobs
Increasing spending on recruitment (advertising, using agencies)
Trying new recruitment methods
Recruiting from outside of the industry
Offering internships or apprenticeships
Using visas to recruit from outside the UK
Outsourcing work
As a percentage of your workforce, approximately what proportion of your existing employees would you estimate are fully proficient at their jobs? Please give a specific figure:
If less than 100% of your staff are fully proficient at their jobs, has this had any of the following effects on your business over the past year? Please tick as many as apply.
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Yes
No
Don't Know
Business orders lost to competitors
Hindered growth of the organisation
Delays in developing new products/services
Increased operating costs
Difficulties in introducing new working practices
Increased workload for other staff
A greater need to outsource work
Among those employees who are not fully proficient at their jobs, which skills are particularly lacking? Please specify:
In a typical year, approximately what % of recruits to your team are: (please provide an approximate percentage figure):
Existing industry practitioners
Recent graduates
Apprenticeships
Do you think the games industry is facing a skills crisis?
Yes
No
Don’t know
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