WorkKeys benefits employees - WorkKeys benefits employers

How Employees Benefit from WorkKeys
Assessment scores enable individuals to demonstrate their competencies in basic skill areas required for the effective performance of specific jobs. Individuals may include their WorkKeys Assessment scores in their resumes posted on OhioWorks.com.

How Employers Benefit from WorkKeys
Job Profiling identifies skills and the skill levels someone must have to perform effectively a specific job within your company. An individual's WorkKeys Assessment scores can be compared to the skill levels required by the job determined by job profiling to establish his/her skill proficiencies for effective job performance. Employers may include the required WorkKeys levels in job postings on OhioWorks.com. They can provide Instructional programs to assist their employees in improving WorkKeys scores to meet the needs of their company.A national system designed by American College Testing (ACT) to measure workplace skills, to relate those skills to specific jobs, and to improve workplace skills.
The WorkKeys System

1. connects work skills, training, and testing for education and employers.
2. makes it easier to meet the requirements of federal programs and legislation
3. supports economic and workforce development programs.

is the basis for the National Career Readiness Certificate

Specific Info:
The WorkKeys System is comprised of four components:
    1)  Job Profiling 
    2)  WorkKeys Assessments - Reading for Information, Applied Math, Listening, Writing, 
         Locating Information, Teamwork, Applied Technology, Observation 
    3)  Results Reporting 
    4)  Instructional Programming 

How the NCRC Works:
Three WorkKeys scores determine the level of the National Career Readiness Certificate. When employers ask for the National Career Readiness Certificate for jobs in their workplace, they tap into the most qualified labor pool available. Applicants with a National Career Readiness Certificate provide solid insight into their foundational skills in the core areas of  Reading for Information, Applied Mathematics, and Locating Information.

Which NCRC is Needed?
Search Average WorkKeys Scores Needed by Job Title at www.act.org/cgi-bin/workkeys/occuprof/certificate UVJVS Job Connection - Former UVJVS Students
We can release your WorkKeys scores/NCRC information to employers. Proof of your permission is required.  Please print and return Occupational Assessment Results Release Form attached here in a print friendly .pdf. Occupational Assessment Results Release Form
Additional Information Links:
UVJVS Adult Division WorkKeys Information
ACT WorkKeys:  ACT National Career Readiness