The Challenges Facing Businesses
Businesses are constantly struggling for a competitive edge. In today's
knowledge and customer-driven environment, the business's employees
often provide that edge. Employees must be able to identify
opportunities, adapt to change, and provide high productivity while
maintaining high quality. However the available workforce is not always
up to the challenge
- Surveys show 38% of new hires do not have the math and reading skills required for their jobs.
- Workplace skill issues costs American businesses about $60 billion per year in lost productivity.
How WorkKeys
Addresses The Issue
ACT's WorkKeys employment system provides
a framework for dealing with this issue. Using WorkKeys, you can
identify those candidates that have the skills needed to be successful
in your jobs. For more information, go to What is WorkKeys?
What if you can't find enough skilled candidates?
If you don't have enough skilled
candidates applying for your jobs, then more testing won't solve the
problem. Testing also won't solve problems with your existing workforce.
To solve these problems and to empower your entire workforce, you need a
method to give your employees the basic skills they will need to tackle
the challenges that they will face in your business.
How KeyTrain Works
for Businesses
KeyTrain is the method you can use to improve these basic workplace skills. And by
providing a path for skills improvement, your employees will be able to
give their buy-in into the WorkKeys system for selection and
advancement.
KeyTrain's flexible and self-driven
curriculum makes it ideal for use in business environments. Employees
can study from any computer on your site whenever they have spare time.
They can also use the software or printed curriculum at home. KeyTrain's
student tracking system gives your supervisors access to reports on your
employee's skill gains and can interface with your other personnel
systems.
KeyTrain has been chosen numerous times
by several major manufacturers in rigorous studies of WorkKeys
curriculum. Companies currently using KeyTrain include:
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