The Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, Sports, and Youth (MOESY) is conducting the National Employer Survey (CyEmployers) for the first time in Cyprus, in collaboration with PwC Cyprus. This survey is part of the project "Development of a National Graduate Tracking Mechanism and Design and Implementation of an Employers’ Skills Survey," included in the Cyprus Republic's Recovery and Resilience Plan.

The CyEmployers survey aims to better align the skills acquired in higher education with the demands of the labor market, enhancing employment prospects for Cyprus' higher education graduates and forecasting future skills needs. The survey methodology is being designed in collaboration with the University of Warwick's Institute for Employment Research. More information can be found here.

The survey involves a representative sample of private-sector businesses and the entire public and broader public sector. Specifically, the private-sector sample consists of approximately 13,000 businesses selected through stratified sampling from the Statistical Service's Business Register.

Data collection is done via an online questionnaire accessible through the project's website or through personalized links sent by email. Employers in the private sector whose businesses are in the sample and all public sector division managers (such as departments, services, units, and committees) are invited to complete the questionnaire.

The participation of private-sector employers and public-sector managers in the CyEmployers survey is crucial for identifying labor market skill needs. The survey's results are expected to contribute to enhancing the content of existing higher education programs in Cyprus, creating new programs, and designing lifelong learning programs offered by other educational and training institutions. Additionally, it will inform the revision of primary and secondary education curricula.

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