Educators

The National Career Readiness Certificate is based on WorkKeys^® tests already in use at high schools, community colleges, and adult education facilities across the country.

"The National Career Readiness Certificate is an excellent way to assist career and technical educators in preparing the current and future workforce. Developing a skilled workforce—one that has the ability to quickly adapt to new and changing workforce demands—is a primary focus of the career and technical education programs offered through the nation's secondary and postsecondary public schools. Identifying, quantifying, and assessing those skills necessary to prepare the workforce is critical to career and technical education."

Jan Bray

Executive Director of The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE)

Educators can use the skill levels required by the National Career Readiness Certificate as benchmarks in communicating with economic developers and businesses—to help prepare students for the workplace.

Because WorkKeys is tied to specific training and curriculum for skill improvement, educators can offer programs for individuals wishing to improve their skills and enhance job opportunities.

WorkKeys provides a common language for employers, schools, and students. WorkKeys helps students:

Compare their WorkKeys skill levels to the skill levels required for the jobs they want.
Submit their WorkKeys scores to specific companies to target job search efforts.
Demonstrate to others (employers, educators, instructors, and counselors) their transferable employability skill levels.
Use information from skill reports and job profiles to identify areas in which they need further training.

"The American Association of Community Colleges is pleased to support ACT’s new National Career Readiness Certificate. The certificate will offer our member colleges a successful common assessment tool and language by which they can assist local constituents with their economic and workforce development needs. Working with more than 500 community colleges over 10 years, ACT has developed a unique set of assessment tools that have been particularly useful in assisting both individuals and employers in career and education/training decision-making. The National Career Readiness Certificate adds one more valuable assessment to the existing collection of tools that extends the value of community colleges in advancing the economic and workforce development process of their communities."

George Boggs

President

American Association of Community Colleges

WorkKeys is already being used in education to:

Improve K-12 education with a proficiency certificate for teacher assistants that meets standards of No Child Left Behind.
Measure K-12 school accountability and address higher education reforms.

Educators

The National Career Readiness Certificate is based on WorkKeys® tests already in use at high schools, community colleges, and adult education facilities across the country.

The National Career Readiness Certificate is based on WorkKeys^® tests already in use at high schools, community colleges, and adult education facilities across the country.