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WorkKeys Overview
 The WorkKeys® Employment 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 WorkKeys can allow you to correctly identify
individuals who have the basic skills required to be successful in a
given position or career. ACT's rigorous approach has guaranteed that the WorkKeys
assessment and job profiling systems are EEOC compliant and legally
defensible. This means that, when properly used, businesses can make
hiring and promotion decisions based on WorkKeys with confidence and
security.
WorkKeys is Nationwide
WorkKeys is rapidly becoming the nationwide standard for measuring and
communicating basic workplace skills. WorkKeys is currently in use in all 50
states in the United States. WorkKeys was developed by ACT, Inc., the
creators of the ACT Assessment® college entrance exam.
WorkKeys is a Flexible System of Components
The major components of WorkKeys 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 has resulted in a tool that, when properly used, is
EEOC compliant and legally defensible.
Note that WorkKeys 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. WorkKeys allows you to see how much and
to what degree of complexity each skill is required in an individual
position. WorkKeys does not deal with job-specific training. For
instance, WorkKeys would not train or measure the performance of a
person to be a printing press operator. However WorkKeys does 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 helps a business to avoid mistakes in
hiring and training a person who is not ready to absorb the information
presented in the training.
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