WorkKeys® Assessment
System Overview
The WorkKeys® Assessment System is a
comprehensive system for measuring,
communicating and improving the common
skills required for success in the
workplace. It allows these skills to be
quantitatively assessed in both individual
persons and in actual jobs. Therefore the
WorkKeys System can allow you to identify
individuals who have the basic skills
required to be successful in a given
position or career. When properly used,
businesses can make hiring and promotion
decisions based on WorkKeys with confidence
and security.
The WorkKeys System is
Nationwide
The WorkKeys Assessment System is rapidly
becoming the nationwide standard for
measuring and communicating basic workplace
skills. It is currently in use in all 50
states in the United States. The WorkKeys
System was developed by ACT, Inc., the
creators of the college entrance exam.
The WorkKeys System is
a Flexible System of Components
The major components of the WorkKeys System
include:
- Job
Profiling - Determining the basic skills
required for individual jobs and
occupational careers
-
Assessment - Measuring the basic skills
that individuals can apply to workplace
situations
-
Training - Curriculum guidelines from
ACT and curriculum from ACT Level 1
publishers designed to improve an
individual's skills so that they can be
successful in jobs of their choice
-
Research - ACT's extensive research and
validation efforts results in a tool
that can be applied with the highest
levels of reliability and confidence to
a wide range of education, employment
and workforce development objectives.
 Note that the WorkKeys System deals with the
foundation skills required by all jobs, such
as reading, mathematics, teamwork and
others. These skills are required by
essentially all jobs, from entry-level
positions to white-collar professionals,
although to different degrees in each job.
It allows you to see how much and to what
degree of complexity each skill is required
in an individual position. The WorkKeys
System does not deal with job-specific
training. For instance, it would not train
or measure the performance of a person to be
a printing press operator. However WorkKeys
assessments do ensure that a prospective
employee could read and understand a typical
press operation manual, read the gauges and
dials on the machine, work with others in
the company, and with the proper guidance
become a successful press operator. Without
first knowing that a person possesses these
basic abilities, efforts to train a
potential press operator could be wasted. In
this way, WorkKeys assessments help a
business to avoid mistakes in hiring and
training a person who is not ready to absorb
the information presented in the training. |
