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STAND UP FOR A SKILLED WORKFORCE

Every day you come to work—striving to prepare your students for the real world. The National Career Readiness Certificate is the tool you need to fulfill that mission. By earning The Certificate, your students will be better prepared to enter the workforce and will prove to employers they have the skills to succeed. Take a stand. Stand up for a skilled workforce. Stand out from the crowd. The National Career Readiness Certificate—issued by ACT.

How is The Certificate being used in schools?

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