Essential Job Skills

The Education Center, in 2007 and enabled by a grant from the Daniels Fund,

implemented an essential job skills program utilizing the WIN Career Solutions

curriculum based on the ACT Workkeys Nine Essential Skills Assessment program. 

ACT began profiling jobs in U.S businesses over 10 years ago and through that

process and after thousands of profiles, validated nine (9) essential job skills that

employers confirmed as necessary in 85% of U.S. all jobs.  Those essential skills are

as follows:

Reading for Information

Applied Mathematics

Locating Information

Applied Technology

Listening and Writing

Business Writing

Observation

Teamwork

Writing

ACT then developed an assessment tool, WorkKeys that can evaluate and document

an individual’s competency in each of the above essential skills and additionally the

level of competency within each of those essential skills categories. Each essential skill

will have defined multiple levels of competency ranging from 1- 5, 6 or 7 levels. Each

job profiled will have a defined level of competency that is deemed minimum

for a successful job experience. All job profiles highly recommend a

competency of Level 3 in those essential skills categories.

Worldwide Interactive Network, a Tennessee-based company, developed a learning

system, WIN Career Solutions, which specifically addresses each essential skills

category. The curriculum enriched with unique instructional process and technology

prepares the learner through competency/mastery sequencing to raise competency

levels in all categories. The WIN Career Solutions system also allows each learner to

explore occupations and jobs and then prescribe a learning goal that meets with the

learners objectives.

The WIN Career Solutions program is one of only two sanctioned by the ACT as an

appropriate learning program that matches its WorkKeys Essential Skills thresholds.

The Education Center offers this program to individuals for a fe and to businesses and

organizations on a contracted basis.  Please call The Education Center for pricing

information.

The Education Center, in positioning itself to be more effective in support of economic

development, secured the WIN Career Solutions program and has made it available to

business wishing to improve employee performance and advancement; for individuals

wishing to prepare for job entry or career changes; and for its Archuleta County High

School student in preparation for job entry, military service and/or postsecondary study.

Successful learners will be awarded the ACT National Career Readiness Certificate

and/or the CareerReady Colorado Certificate at a Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum

level.  There is a cost to take the ACT WorkKeys assessments to validate essential

skills competencies.  These costs are dictated by the ACT and change periodically. 

Please call The Education Center for current pricing. 

           Call 970-264-2835 to get started today!

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