Employer Labor Market Survey Template
Where are employers hiring, and which openings are difficult to fill? Use this seven-question SurveyLegend template to collect a consistent local snapshot.
Where are employers hiring, and which openings are difficult to fill? Use this seven-question SurveyLegend template to collect a consistent local snapshot.
An open position and a recent hire tell different stories. A business may have filled several jobs last month and still have vacancies today. Ask about both before planning employer outreach or discussing training needs.
When to Use This Template
Use this questionnaire with a chamber of commerce, workforce partnership, or employer network. One authorized representative should answer for one establishment. Define the local area and reference date before sending invitations. For a broader research plan, SurveyLegend's market research overview can help frame the audience and decision.
7 Employer Labor Market Survey Questions
Please answer for one establishment in the stated area. Use the published reference date and calendar month. An open position means an unfilled job for which this establishment is actively recruiting outside applicants. Report hires who actually started, not offers or internal transfers. Every question is optional. Do not include applicant names or confidential recruitment details.
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How to Adapt the Questionnaire
Replace the industry list with locally meaningful, mutually understandable sectors. Display exact dates instead of 'recently.' Keep the vacancy definition unchanged across establishments and repeat rounds. State who can access establishment-level answers and how small groups will be protected. Set one invitation per site through the outreach process; the questionnaire alone does not prevent duplicates. Keep every item optional.
When to Ask
Send shortly after the reference month closes, when staffing records are available. Give every employer the same response window. A later answer must still refer to the stated date and month. Recontact the same participating establishments if you want a comparable follow-up; describe changes in participation alongside any apparent trend.
How to Use the Responses
Report how many establishments answered each question. Keep zero vacancies, missing answers, and 'not sure' separate. Counts are bands: do not add midpoints and label the result an exact number of jobs. Group named roles consistently, then compare reported duration and obstacles within sufficiently large sectors. A staffing coordinator can follow up on recurring approval delays while a workforce partner investigates qualification needs. These are employers' accounts, not verified causes. Without a designed representative sample and appropriate denominators, do not publish a local vacancy rate or unemployment estimate.
What the Research Adds
Davis, Faberman, and Haltiwanger's 2013 study examines “vacancies, hires, and vacancy yields” using establishment-level U.S. employer data. The University of Maryland abstract describes differences across employer characteristics and industries. That distinction informs this template's separate vacancy and hire questions. The study does not validate these seven questions or make participating businesses representative of a local economy. Read the vacancies and hiring study .
Frequently asked questions
Can this estimate local unemployment?
No. These questions describe participating employers. Unemployment estimates require information about people and a suitable population survey design.
Why ask about vacancies and hires separately?
Vacancies are unfilled positions at a point in time. Hires are people who started during a period. One cannot be substituted for the other.
Should a company with several locations respond once?
Use one response per establishment if that is the declared unit. State the rule in the invitation and keep it consistent across rounds.
Printable Employer Labor Market Survey
Provide all seven questions with industry and count-band checkboxes, role-writing space, and the exact reference date and month printed above the questions. Include 'no open role' options so paper respondents need no routing. Paper responses need separate review or manual entry; they are not automatically added to online results.
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