Horizon Goodwill Industries GetOnBoard! job readiness program partnered with Hagerstown Community College and Allegany College of Maryland in Cumberland, MD, and Hagerstown, MD to prepare Get Onboard! Participants to earn their National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC) and improve their chances at obtaining better career opportunities. These services will be available at no cost to the participant. As the program continues HGI, HCC and ACM will be able to analyze the data from the students that graduate with the NCRC credentialing to see if it contributes to the community's overall advancement to offer a workforce that is well-educated and trained.
William Early’s office windows look out over a new mixed-use development taking form in The Villages at Brunswick Forest. Beyond the new site, he can see U.S. 17, a major artery through Brunswick County. The view is appropriate. Early, executive director of Brunswick Business & Industry Development, is charged with advancing economic growth within the county. Highway connections and an expanding retail and services sector are amenities he touts when wooing companies considering sites.
Site selectors, employers and others often prefer to view a Work Ready Community with surrounding communities in a single snapshot. Your friends at ACT Work Ready Communities are pleased to introduce the Custom Region function on the home page of workreadycommunities dot org. This short video shows how it works.
New research on manufacturing apprenticeships Southwest Ohio examines the National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC) as a predictor of success for the Certified Production Technician exams. In all, results were consistent with the notion that WorkKeys measures foundational skills required for success in an industry-specific credentialing program.
This ACT Technical Brief describes results from a preliminary WorkKeys Curriculum effectiveness study conducted with data from Nevada State High School (NSHS). NSHS provides a unique opportunity to examine the effectiveness of the WorkKeys Curriculum because many NSHS students take the WorkKeys Assessments before and after engaging with the WorkKeys Curriculum. Results from this preliminary study indicated that the WorkKeys Curriculum may help improve WorkKeys performance.
The Center for Career and Community Education presented seven new Medical Assisting graduates at their completion ceremony March 5.
From left, CCCE Health Occupations Coordinator Elizabeth Rice, CiTi Board of Education Presdient John Shelmidine, Medical Assisting graduates Lori Coldiron, Tammy Henderson, Mackenzie Casler, Amy Arden, Kari Firenze, Majesta Hallock, CCCE Medical Assisting Instructor Shelly Spencer, CCCE Liaison for Workforce Initiatives and Corporate Programs Paula S. Hayes and CiTi Assistant Superintendent for Personnel Mark LaFountain. Not pictured, Medical Assisting graduate Megan Meddaugh.
“I feel the best part of the class was the hands-on experience,” said salutatorian Amy Arden.
The class received a 100% pass rate on their certification exam. Every graduate also received a National Career Readiness Certificate through WorkKeys, validating their skill set for the work they will be doing.
Developed by the ACT company, the WorkKeys test is the career-track equivalent of the ACT, which is used to assess college preparedness.
For 12 years now, EMCC has been offering these tests.
"When we started our manufacturing skills classes back in 2006 and 2007, we knew we wanted to use WorkKeys," said Jim Huerkamp, EMCC's project manager for skills development. "We weren't exactly sure how we wanted to use it at first, but over the years, it's turned out to be a valuable tool to assess workplace skills."
Milo was in Gibson County as a part of the announcement of the $60,000 grant from Toyota Indiana for adult education programs provided by WorkOne Southwest and Vincennes University. The grant is meant to help make it easier for Indiana residents who want to gain their high school equivalency certificate.
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This website reports the ACT® WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificates earned at the county and state level and the progress being made by those participating states and counties in the ACT Work Ready Community initiative. This site only represents data stored in the ACT RegiSTAR™ system, a web-based reporting and management tool for ACT WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificates.
State and national ACT WorkKeys NCRC data runs from January 2006 through
, while county-level data is starting from January 2012. State job profile data runs from January 2007 through
, while national job profile data reaches back to 1993. Again, please note that county-level ACT WorkKeys NCRC data collection began in January 2012 for WorkKeys Internet Version, and in July 2012 for pencil and paper assessments. State and national certificate totals include historical data prior to 2012.
WorkKeys® assessments are used across the nation, and many states have built their own Career Readiness Certificates based upon WorkKeys assessment results. You will find an asterisk denoting those states. This website will continue to evolve as the first two rounds of participating states give us feedback on what they would like to see -- and based on your feedback, as well.
Please contact us if you have comments, questions or would like to receive more information.