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Iowa
ACT WorkKeys NCRC Earned
Total: 137,998
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communities participating
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About Iowa Work Ready Communities
ACT Work Ready Communities (WRC) empowers communities and states with process, data and tools deployed in a common workforce development framework to drive economic growth by certifying communities as "work ready" when established goals are attained.
Think of it as a docking station where all participants plug into the common community-level ACT Work Ready Community criteria as part of establishing community goals.
The common criteria are based upon the ACT WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificate (ACT WorkKeys NCRC) and business engagement to create a community-based workforce development process that links, aligns and matches the community's workforce development efforts to the needs of business and industry. The goal is for all participating communities to achieve certified work ready status.
ACT is leading this national effort with a two-session Boot Camp within a 3-month window to help participants share best practices, customize the national implementation framework or their own needs and build career pathways aligned to growth industries.
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408 Iowa employers recognize the ACT WorkKeys NCRC in support of Iowa communities’ goals
- Ameristar Casino Hotel
- Ameristar Casino Hotel Council Bluffs
- Sioux City Community School District
- Ames Lawn Care
- BioLife Plasma Services
- Heartland Family Service - Family Works
Iowa - Iseman Homes
- Keizer Refrigeration
- New Perspectives Inc
- Northwest Iowa Pork Inc
- Southern Hills Mall
- Sugar Shack Bakery
- Tur-Pak Foods Inc
- United States Transit Funding Inc.
- Liberty Utilities
- Treynor State Bank
- CHI Health Clinic
- Synchronicity Inc.
- Children's Hospital & Medical Center
- CHI Health Clinic Foot and Ankle (CUMC -
Bergan Mercy)
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