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Career expectations questionnaire. Hear what students want from their future work.
Nine questions for high school students: what they plan to do after graduation, which fields interest them, how they see their future job and what will make a career worth it. It takes about a minute.
Free plan: 100 responses a month and up to 50 surveys, no credit card.
The template’s real survey on a phone.
- 9 ready questionsAbout 1 min on a phone.
- Yours to changeQuestions, answers and logic.
- A ready reportA chart for every closed question.
- Export on every planCSV, Excel and SPSS.
Students choose a path long before they choose a job. Nine questions show what they expect from work while there is still time to guide the choice.
The 9 career expectations questions in this template.
Plans after school, what students expect from work, then their goals and a short profile. Change any question to fit your programs.
Plans after school
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What are your plans after graduating from high school?
Why ask it. The path after school, from university to a full-time job. Every other answer is read against it.
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Which area are you most interested in?
Why ask it. The field each student leans toward. Plan subjects, events or open days around the most popular ones.
Work and career values
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How do you see your future job?
Why ask it. How students picture their future work, and what they hope a job will give them.
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Choose the statement that you agree with the most:
Why ask it. Shows how much family and friends shape the choice.
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A career is needed in life to...
Why ask it. What a career is for in the student’s eyes: growth, helping others or income.
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Choose the most important factors for your future career satisfaction:
Why ask it. What would make a career satisfying, from money and status to family time. Students tick every factor that matters to them.
Goals and profile
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Choose your major life goals:
Why ask it. Where a career sits among family, education, travel and the rest. Students tick all that apply.
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What’s your gender?
Why ask it. Optional profile data, to see whether expectations differ.
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Your age:
Why ask it. Shows whether answers differ by age, and spots respondents outside your target group.
How to create a student career survey from this template.
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Copy the template
Click “Use this template” and create a free account or log in. The nine questions are copied to your account, ready to edit. The copy appears in your survey list as a draft.
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Make it yours
Edit the fields of interest to match the subjects or programs you offer, and add a logic rule that shows a follow-up question to students who plan a gap year.
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Share it with students
Share the link in the class chat or the school newsletter, or print the QR code for a career fair stand.
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Read the answers
Plans after school, fields of interest and what students want from a career each get a chart. Share a read-only report link with teachers and counselors.
How to read career expectations results.
Where students are heading
The plans and fields charts show how many students choose college, university, work or a gap year, and which areas attract them.
What they expect from work
The job, career purpose and satisfaction questions show whether income, growth or helping others comes first. On Basic and higher plans, filter by plans after school to compare future students with future employees.
Life goals
The life goals chart puts career next to family, education and travel. Export the answers to Excel, CSV or SPSS on any plan.
How to get honest answers from students.
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Ask before choices are made
Run it early in the final school year, before applications are due.
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Keep it anonymous
The questionnaire asks for no name. Turn on anonymous mode in the survey settings and say so in the invitation.
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Follow your school’s rules
Many respondents are under 18. Check your school’s rules on surveys of minors before you send the link.
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Share what you learned
Show students the results in a class or career session, and plan the next fair around the fields they chose.
More career expectations questions you can add.
Not in the template. Add any of them in the builder in a few clicks.
Skills and readiness
- Which skills do you need to develop for your future career?
- How confident are you about your career choice, from 1 to 5?
- Have you done an internship or a part-time job?
Support and information
- Who helps you most with career decisions?
- Which career events would be most useful to you?
- Where do you look for information about professions?
Study plans
- Which college or university are you considering?
- Which subject do you plan to study?
- Would you consider studying abroad?
Free tools for your results
- Sample size calculatorHow many students need to answer for the results to describe the whole year group.
- Response rate calculatorThe share of the class or year group that answered.
- Margin of error calculatorHow precise the share of students planning university or work is.
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Questions about this template
What questions should a career expectations questionnaire ask?
Plans after school, fields of interest, how the respondent sees their future job, what a career is for, what will make it satisfying and their life goals. This template asks all of it in nine questions.
Who is this questionnaire for?
High school students choosing what to do after graduation. Schools, career counselors, colleges and youth programs can send it as it is.
Can I use it for employee career planning?
The questions are written for students. For employees, start from the employee career expectations survey template, which asks about promotion, pay and workload, or rewrite the first question here around their current role.
Is the questionnaire anonymous?
Students give their gender and age, never their name or e-mail. On any plan, anonymous mode in the survey settings also hides IP address, country, browser and device.
How long does it take?
About a minute. Two questions are required, and the rest are optional.
Ask students what they expect from their careers.
List your programs in question two and share the link with your students.