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STAND UP FOR A SKILLED WORKFORCE

Now more than ever, American businesses need a strong, skilled workforce to overcome today's challenges. When you ask for the National Career Readiness Certificate, issued by ACT, at your business you'll find only the most skilled employees. The Certificate is the work-related skills credential, providing objective documentation of employees' skills that can be accepted nationwide.

The National Career Readiness Certificate tells you workers have essential core employability skills critical for success in your organization. Individuals with higher scores are prepared for a greater range of jobs or training programs. When your business asks for The Certificate, you are well on your way to hiring a more qualified, trainable employee, thereby improving your productivity and your bottom line.

Employers work to make things predictable, uniform, and certain. Predictability, uniformity, and certainty are universal goals of executives. The NCRC does this for the hiring process.

Mac MacIlroy, Past President MMA

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)

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