Career Intentions Survey (CIS)
If you are leaving the Coast Guard, please complete the Career
Intentions Survey (CIS) even if
you have done it recently for some other reason.
If you have been asked to complete this survey for some other reason, but
have filled it out within the past six months, you don't need to do it again
unless you want to.
Whether you are an active or reserve military member, a civilian (including
NAF) employee, or even an Auxiliarist or contractor in some cases, you have
been asked to fill out this Career Intentions Survey because you are at a transition point in
your career. You may have just entered or been hired by the Coast Guard; you
could be leaving or transferring from one component to another. You may have
just completed some training or education, or be returning from temporary
duty. You may have been promoted or reassigned. Whatever the reason this is
a chance for you to take stock-to reflect on your experiences so far, and to
look ahead at your expectations about a career with the Coast Guard. Here is
a list of the events that should trigger your opportunity to fill out the
survey:
- Graduating from recruit training, OCS, commissioning from academy, MARGRAD
- Graduating from A-school
- Returning from advanced or graduate training, or a senior service school
- Transferring (PCS) or if civilian, accepting another position (not a promotion)
- Advancing, promoting, accepting a warrant, accepting a commission
- Returning from any TAD longer than 6 weeks (other than training)
- Returning from a detail (civilian)
- Executing an EAD contract (reserve)
- Completing active duty for training (Reserve) or ADSW (AC or RC) (Reserve)
- Release from active duty with transfer to drilling/non-drilling status in the Reserve
- Leaving active military to become a civilian employee of the CG
- Leaving reserve military to become a civilian employee of the CG
- Leaving a civilian job with CG to become a CG active duty member
- Leaving a civilian job with the CG to become a CG reservist
- Retiring from the service or civil service
- Leaving the CG to pursue education
- Leaving the CG for private sector employment
- Leaving the CG for work in another agency (civilian)
- Leaving government service (civilian)
- Discharge (administrative or medical)
In short, this is like an exit survey if you are leaving, but it's just
as important to find out how people who are not leaving feel about their
experiences. By knowing both why people leave and why they stay we might be
able to craft policies and practices that benefit everyone.
At the end of the survey is a list of factors you might have considered when
you decided to stay or leave. Since the list is longer than a screen, you
might want to print the survey before you even begin and think about those
factors, then come back and fill out the survey on line.
It should take between 5 and 15 minutes (the average is about 10) to
complete the survey. Your privacy is assured so please be candid. If you are
staying with the Coast Guard, think of this as an investment of 10 minutes
in your future; if you are leaving, consider it an opportunity to help us
understand why. Please read the privacy statement below, and click below
where indicated when you are ready. You will not be able to save your place,
so once you start you have to finish or start over.
PRIVACY AND INFORMED CONSENT
In accordance with Public Law 93-579, The Privacy Act of
1974, providing the information requested in this survey is voluntary; also,
49 CFR 11.116 states a requirement for informed consent.
PRINCIPLE PURPOSE: This survey is being conducted to better understand
attitudes and perceptions about various aspects of Coast Guard life.
ROUTINE USES: The information you provide will be treated confidentially.
The data will be summarized and used to identify strengths and areas for
improvement in Coast Guard policies and practices, balance of work and life,
quality of personnel support, etc.
PARTICIPATION: Your response to any item is voluntary. If you choose not to
answer an item your choice may reduce the accuracy of the result and may
hamper the Coast Guard's efforts to evaluate the effectiveness of policies
and practices. Your responses are needed to ensure the validity of the
survey. Reports of aggregate results and trends, and conclusions drawn from
those trends, will be published in various places available to respondents.
Inquiries about this survey and the results may be directed to the Human
Resources Capability Development Staff (CG-1B2), U.S. Coast Guard
Headquarters, 2100 Second Street SW, Mailstop 7801, Washington DC, 20593.
Begin the survey ...
Questions? Comments? E-mail Mr. Paul Redmond, CG Human Resources Capability Staff or call him at 202-475-5030.