Onboarding survey at University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, 2023

Last updated: 2025-08-27

 

______Contact 1______

* Jan Valis

* valisj@vshct.cz

* +420 220 44 2072

* ORCID: 0000-0003-0349-6868

* Dept. of Analytical Chemistry. Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of chemistry and Technology, Prague

* Technicka 5, 166 28, Prague 6, Czech Republic

 

______Contact 2______

* Mili Losmanova

* losmanom@vshct.cz

* ORCID: 0000-0002-1630-7635

* PhD Office, University of chemistry and Technology, Prague

* Technicka 5, 166 28, Prague 6, Czech Republic

 

______Creators/Contributors______

* Jan Valis (Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft)

* Mili Losmanova (Conceptualization, Writing – original draft)

 

______Licence______

*Onboarding survey at University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, 2023 © 2025 by Jan Valis and Mili Losmanova is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

*licence information: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1

 

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______About the dataset______

The shift from pre-graduate to postgraduate level of studies, together with a potential change of institution/employer can be a challenging time for many PhD candidates. In private sector, onboarding procedures are a common practicer.

 

To asses the need for onboarding procedure development at University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT Prague), an 11-question survey was conducted among UCT Prague's PhD candidates (131 response, 49%) and employees (134 responses, 51%). Their responses overwhelmingly showed, that while most did not even hear about the term Onboarding (65%) and even less had experienced it in private sector (15%) or in academia (18%), most would appreciate such practice at UCT Prague both for PhD candidates (87%) and for employees (85%) alike.

 

On top of the current state of affairs, respondents were asked to list informations, that they wished to have received during their start at UCT Prague. These responses were subsequently used to adapt a compilation of adaptation plans from private sector, so the newly created adaptation plan for UCT Prague would reflect needs of PhD candidates at this institution.

 

 

______Methods of data collection______

* Survey was conducted between 22.05.2025 and 03.06.2025

* 265 participants answered 11 questions in Microsoft Forms

* Only UCT Prague-affiliated accounts were enrolled, however, no unique or other personal identifiers were collected - the survey contains no personal or sensitive data.

* Data on sex, gender and date of birth were not collected.

 

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______File name structure_____

*UCTsurvey2023_DataRaw.csv

- Contains raw data as they were answered by participants - some in Czech, some in English

- header row = question asked in the questionnaire (Czech)

- first column = response ID (Answers 1 and 2 were deleted as these were used to test the questionnaire (in Czech and English) by the authors)

- subsequent rows = answers

 

 

*UCTsurvey2023_DataCounted.csv

- Contains aggregated values for each question and, if applicable, translated to English

- header row with number = question asked in the questionnaire (translated to English)

- subsequent rows = answers

- abbreviations:

FCHT = Faculty of Chemical Technology

FTOP = Faculty of Environmental protection

FPBT = Faculty of Food and Biotechnology

FCHI = Faculty of Chemical Engineering

PhDc = PhD candidate/student of the doctoral study programme

Department number can be found at www.telefony.vscht.cz

 

*UCTsurvey2023_Form.pdf

- Printout of the English version of the questionnaire

 

*UCTsurvey2023_Presentation.pdf

- Presentation of the results and main takeaways

 

______File formats______

* Tabular data - converted from XSLX to CSV

* Presentation - converted from PPTX to PDF/A

 

______Date formats______

* YYYY-MM-DD

* HH-MM-SS 24hr formate