Program

Work Certified translates into success for both employers and employees. This innovative program will have employees setting and achieving goals and employers rewarding their peak performers. Job satisfaction and longevity will become the norm rather than the exception.

Work Certified is a continuous improvement process...

"Skill standards are performance specifications that identify the knowledge, skills and abilities an individual needs to succeed in the workplace." (NSSB)

These skill standards define what a person must know and be able to do in order to perform work successfully at a specific job, within an occupational cluster or across an industry sector.

Why use nationally-recognized, industry-based skill standards and certification?

Because it provides a common language and framework for:

• Employers - to communicate workforce skill needs to educators, trainers and prospective employees
• Workforce Boards - to communicate requirements for certification of training providers
• Educators/Trainers - to communicate to students what is expected by industry
• Workers - to communicate the skills they have or need

Industry-based skill standards promote certification portability, skill transferability, worker mobility and education/training consistency.

Key Concepts

• Employer as primary customer
• Continuous improvement model - ask what is needed and deliver
• Improve quality by creating a unified approach and basing the system on industry-driven skill standards and occupational certification

CERTIFICATION

The National Skill Standards Board was consulted throughout the development and implementation of the Work Readiness Certification Program to ensure all aspects required of certification programs were met.

There are, in fact, two separate certification programs associated with this program. One is for participants. The other is for instructors.

The results of our efforts is best represented by a spokesperson for the national Skill Standards Board at a national presentation

"This is the best (work readiness ) program in the country."