Corporate Solutions

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ACT's WorkKeys Job Skills Assessment System

WorkKeys® assessments give students and workers reliable, relevant information about their workplace skill levels. Combined with information about skill levels required for jobs, assessments information can help users make better career and educational decisions.

The WorkKeys system is the most efficient assessment process available. Using our unique job profiling component along with our assessments, we are able to show how a person's skills compare to your specific job requirements, providing you a targeted solution that saves you time and money.

WorkKeys Benefits:

• Develops clear picture of skill requirements
• Improves employee selection and retention
• Identifies training needs
• Increases employee productivity
• Facilitates compliance with EEOC guidelines
• Available in paper-and-pencil and computer-based formats

The WorkKeys system consists of three areas: assessments, job analysis and training.

Assessments
WorkKeys computer-based tests include skill assessments in the following areas:

• Reading for Information
• Business Writing
• Locating Information
• Applied Technology
• Applied Mathematics

Job Analysis
Corporate Solutions offer three different job analysis options to assist you with personnel selection, performance management and training decisions: Job Profiling, SkillMap and WorkKeys Estimator.

Job Profiling
With ACT's job profiling process, an ACT-trained facilitator works collaboratively with groups of your employees to complete each job analysis. Job incumbents serve as the subject matter experts who define the tasks and skills needed to successfully perform a specific job.

Job profiling consists of a task analysis to select the tasks most critical to a job and skill analysis to identify the skills and skill levels required to enter the job and effectively perform the job. By matching the job profile information with individual scores on the WorkKeys assessments, you can make reliable decisions about hiring, training and program development needs.

Job profiling provides these benefits:

• Supports hiring, promotion and training decisions
• Uses focus groups and ACT-trained facilitators
• Offers a proven methodology and reliable results
• Uses ACT's SkillPro® software
• Meets requirements adopted by the EEOC

SkillMap
This online program features an easy-to-follow format with step-by-step instructions and online support through tutorials, a user guide and an indexed help system. Employees are able to participate at a time that best fits their schedule, without leaving their work place. This program identifies tasks most important to job performance and is able to help employers get the right individual for the job. SkillMap will help you decrease turnover and improve hiring decisions.

WorkKeys Estimator
Especially useful for smaller businesses, WorkKeys Estimator is a quick and easy to use tool that will help you identify skill levels needed for specific jobs. Assessment tests are in a paper-and-pencil format, and the results can be used to develop recruiting and training plans.
These methods involve varying degrees of complexity, flexibility and cost. We can help you choose the approach that works best for your HR practices and business needs. For more information on Community College of Philadelphia's Job Analysis program, contact Corporate Solutions at 215-496-6158 or csinquiry@ccp.edu.

Training
KeyTrain
This comprehensive training curriculum features more than 10,000 pages of self-paced interactive materials covering all WorkKeys skills. Available in print-based, CD-ROM and Internet formats, KeyTrain also offers a beginning skills curriculum that covers Pre-WorkKeys skills.


For further information about Community College of Philadelphia's WorkKeys program, please call us at 215-496-6158 or email csinquiry@ccp.edu.