The Challenges Facing the One-Stops
One-Stop centers face a variety of challenges, including establishing a system of assessing the skills of
clients, matching clients to appropriate jobs, and bridging skills gaps
between existing clients and desirable jobs. The WorkKeys® employment
system and KeyTrain™ curriculum system form a comprehensive, validated system for
achieving these goals. WorkKeys and KeyTrain can form the backbone of a
systematic approach to assessing, matching and training clients in a
One-Stop environment.
KeyTrain and WorkKeys address the major challenges
facing today's One-Stop systems by providing:
A coherent system for
matching the right clients to the right jobs, and
A system for improving
the basic employment skills of clients.
This system uses quantitative
and EEOC-compliant measurements to compare the basic workplace skills
required by individual jobs to the skills possessed by individual
people. This system can allow the One-Stop to make more sound judgments
about how well an individual client is prepared to be successful in a
job opening or career. Even if businesses in your community are not
using the entire WorkKeys system, KeyTrain's occupational job profile
database of WorkKeys profiled jobs can help One-Stops match clients to careers in which they
are more likely to succeed, or to identify and reduce skills gaps for
careers which they desire.
How KeyTrain Can Be Used in a One-Stop
Setting
KeyTrain is an effective, easy-to-implement, and low cost
solution for implementing a basic workplace skills improvement program.
This system can be used a number of different ways within the guidelines
of the Workforce Investment Act:
- As part of the intensive services
portion of the center, to provide assessment and short-term
prevocational services to improve the employability of clients,
- As
skills upgrading and job-readiness training through a WIB partner
agency,
- As part of self-service core services as allowed by your
state and local plans,
- As a basic skills program for youth services,
- As part of services provided to dislocated workers,
- As a core
indicator of attainment of basic skills,
- As a method to link training
to the requirements of job openings in the community,
 This
system ensures that the One-Stop produces a quality product – a
well-qualified employee matched to a suitable job.
This system will help to improve the center’s customer
satisfaction and increase accountability measures related to job
placement, skills attained, job pay and job retention.
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