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Employee Career Development & Mentorship Assessment

Measures employees' access to growth opportunities, mentorship quality, career path clarity, and internal mobility confidence to inform talent development strategy and retention initiatives.

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25 questions · ~11 min
Q01
Message

Welcome to the Career Development & Mentorship Survey. This survey explores your experiences with professional growth opportunities, mentorship, and career pathways within the organization. Your responses are confidential and will be reported only in aggregate — no individual answers will be attributed to you. There are no right or wrong answers; we are interested in your honest opinions and experiences. Participation is voluntary and you may stop at any time. Estimated time: 5–7 minutes.

Q02
Opinion Scale

Overall, how would you rate your access to growth and development opportunities in the past 12 months?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Very limitedMax:Very ample
Q03
Multiple Choice

In the past 12 months, have you participated in any mentorship relationship?

  • Yes, as a mentor
  • Yes, as a mentee
  • Yes, both as a mentor and mentee
  • No
Q04
Opinion Scale

How clear are the next steps in your career path within the organization?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Very unclearMax:Very clear
Q05
Ranking

Please rank the following areas by how much improvement would benefit your career growth, from most to least important.

  1. More learning and training opportunities
  2. Clearer promotion criteria and career paths
  3. Stronger manager support for development
  4. Better mentorship or coaching programs
  5. Improved internal job mobility processes
  6. Greater awareness of available resources
Drag to rank
Q06
Multiple Choice

What is your current job level?

  • Individual contributor
  • People manager (manages others)
  • Senior leader (manages managers)
  • Executive
  • Contractor / Temporary
  • Prefer not to say
Q07
Message

Thank you for your time and thoughtful feedback! Your responses will be used in aggregate to improve career development programs across the organization. No individual responses will be attributed to you.

Q08
Opinion Scale

I have had adequate opportunities to learn new skills relevant to my role in the past 12 months.

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Strongly disagreeMax:Strongly agree
Q09
Opinion Scale

My mentor/mentee meetings occurred with sufficient frequency.

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Strongly disagreeMax:Strongly agree
Q10
Multiple Choice

In the past 12 months, which of the following career-related actions have you taken? Select all that apply.

  • Applied for an internal role
  • Moved teams or roles
  • Discussed career options with HR or Talent
  • Used the internal job board
  • Completed a skills assessment or career plan
  • None of the above
Q11
Long Text

Based on your responses in this survey, what single change would most improve your access to growth opportunities, mentorship, or career pathways?

Q12
Multiple Choice

How long have you been with the organization?

  • Less than 6 months
  • 6–12 months
  • 1–3 years
  • 3–5 years
  • More than 5 years
  • Prefer not to say
Q13
Opinion Scale

I receive useful feedback that helps me develop professionally.

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Strongly disagreeMax:Strongly agree
Q14
Opinion Scale

My mentorship relationship provided actionable guidance for my development.

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Strongly disagreeMax:Strongly agree
Q15
Opinion Scale

How confident are you in your ability to navigate the organization's promotion and internal mobility processes?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Not at all confidentMax:Extremely confident
Q16
AI Interview

We'd like to explore your career development experience in a bit more depth. Please share your thoughts and our AI moderator will ask a few brief follow-up questions.

Q17
Multiple Choice

Which region do you primarily work from?

  • Americas
  • EMEA
  • APAC
  • Other
  • Prefer not to say
Q18
Opinion Scale

My manager actively supports my professional development goals.

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Strongly disagreeMax:Strongly agree
Q19
Opinion Scale

Overall, how would you rate the quality of your mentorship experience in the past 12 months?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Very poorMax:Excellent
Q20
Multiple Choice

Which functional area best describes your current role?

  • Engineering / IT
  • Product / Design
  • Sales
  • Marketing
  • Operations
  • Finance
  • HR / People
  • Customer Support
  • Other
  • Prefer not to say
Q21
Opinion Scale

I am aware of the development programs and resources available to me.

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Strongly disagreeMax:Strongly agree
Q22
Multiple Choice

Do you currently have a sponsor (someone who actively advocates for your career advancement)?

  • Yes, a formal sponsor
  • Yes, an informal sponsor
  • Not sure
  • No
Q23
Multiple Choice

What is your typical work arrangement?

  • On-site
  • Hybrid
  • Remote
  • Prefer not to say
Q24
Multiple Choice

Which of the following barriers, if any, limited your professional development in the past 12 months? Select all that apply.

  • Lack of time
  • Unclear promotion or role criteria
  • Limited manager support
  • Few available roles or projects
  • Skills gap for desired roles
  • Unaware of available programs or roles
  • Budget constraints
  • Competing personal commitments
  • None — I did not experience significant barriers
  • Other (please specify)
Q25
Ranking

Please rank your top 3 preferred development formats for the coming year.

  1. Instructor-led workshops
  2. Self-paced online courses
  3. Mentorship or coaching
  4. Stretch assignments or special projects
  5. Job shadowing or rotations
  6. Conferences or external events
Drag to rank

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

  • AI interviews dynamically adapt based on whether respondents are early adopters, skeptics, or non-users—capturing qualitative depth at quantitative scale
  • A generous free tier and affordable plans fit university research budgets, unlike enterprise-locked Qualtrics
  • Every AI parameter is logged for replication—critical for the peer-reviewed AI adoption research that competitors' tools cannot support
  • AI follow-up questions probe beyond surface-level Likert ratings to uncover root causes of disengagement—something no static survey can do
  • Full transparency: every prompt, model, and logic flow is visible to HR researchers, unlike competitor 'black box' AI features

SurveyMonkey

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SurveyMonkey's AI Readiness Assessment is the closest match—evaluating employee AI awareness, training needs, and current tool usage. Solid for organizational readiness but doesn't specifically measure feature-level adoption, trust, or perceived value of AI capabilities.

What it does well

  • Covers employee awareness, comfort levels, and perceived impacts of AI
  • Includes risk, compliance, and ethical considerations alongside adoption questions
  • Fully customizable with branding, and AI-powered analysis suite for open-ended responses

Where it falls short

  • Focused on organizational readiness, not specific AI feature adoption or value perception
  • No conversational AI follow-ups to explore trust barriers or adoption hesitancy in depth
  • SurveyMonkey's own AI tools (Build with AI, analysis) operate as black boxes—no prompt or model transparency
  • No validated trust measurement scales—uses general readiness questions rather than academic trust constructs

Qualtrics

Qualtrics XM for Strategy + Research

Qualtrics publishes extensive research on AI trust gaps (e.g., their State of AI in Employee Experience report analyzing 35,000+ employees) but doesn't offer this as a self-serve template. Their conversational feedback feature is the most competitive AI-interview capability in the market.

What it does well

  • Conversational feedback uses generative AI to generate follow-up questions during live surveys—respondents contribute 40% more information
  • Own research demonstrates deep expertise in AI trust measurement at organizational scale
  • 23 question types including video/audio responses with advanced logic branching

Where it falls short

  • No public pre-built AI feature adoption or trust survey template—requires custom building
  • Pricing starts at $420/month, making it inaccessible for academic researchers and small teams
  • Conversational feedback AI is not researcher-configurable—no access to prompts, no model selection, no parameter logging
  • Enterprise-focused platform creates unnecessary complexity for straightforward adoption studies

Jotform

Technology Surveys

Jotform offers 100+ technology survey templates including some AI-adjacent ones (AI-Augmented Learning Perception, Healthcare AI Bias Awareness, Public Perception of Health AI Tools), but none specifically targeting AI feature adoption and trust in a product or workplace context.

What it does well

  • Largest volume of AI-adjacent survey templates among competitors (100+ technology surveys)
  • Free plan available with drag-and-drop customization and conditional logic
  • Separate AI Agents product offers conversational survey experiences with NLP

Where it falls short

  • No dedicated AI feature adoption or trust survey template—closest options are domain-specific (healthcare, education)
  • AI Agents are a separate product from form templates—not integrated into survey methodology
  • No academic methodology validation, no rubric checking, no scale construction guidance
  • AI Agent training is opaque—no visibility into prompts, models, or reasoning logic for researchers

SurveyMonkey

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What it does well

  • Industry benchmarking data to compare scores against other organizations
  • Standardized 5-point Likert scale with built-in scoring methodology
  • Extensive customization and segmentation by team or location

Where it falls short

  • No AI-powered follow-up questions to explore the 'why' behind low scores
  • Static survey format cannot adapt to individual employee responses in real-time
  • AI features limited to survey creation assistance, not actual respondent interaction

Typeform

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Visually appealing one-question-at-a-time conversational format that improves completion rates. Strong UX and branding customization, but the 'conversational' experience is still pre-scripted—it doesn't actually listen and adapt like AI.

What it does well

  • Beautiful, conversational one-question-at-a-time interface that feels less like a survey
  • Strong integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams, and 300+ tools
  • Excellent mobile experience with no app downloads required

Where it falls short

  • No AI follow-up probes—conversational format is just UX, not intelligent adaptation
  • No transparent AI methodology—no visible prompts or logic for researchers to audit
  • Limited survey methodology rigor—focuses on design over academic-grade question construction

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