The Career Readiness Certificate (CRC)
- a portable skills credential

WIN is the national leader in implementing statewide
initiatives involving Career Readiness Certificates, providing the
WIN Courseware as a workplace skills building solution.

There is great concern in the private sector about the
gap that exists between the skills required in today's workplace and
those exhibited by potential and incumbent employees. Businesses
have trouble finding and hiring people who have basic employable
skills and who are therefore trainable for specific jobs.

Experts know that by 2020, more than 90% of all jobs will
require skill levels beyond those gained in high school. Almost all
workers will need training and education at the post-secondary
level. In the United States, most training is done on the job, and
all indications are that this situation will not change in the
coming decades. What employers need therefore, are employees who are
trainable, and who can benefit from the many opportunities afforded
them for skill enhancement..

Career Readiness
Certificates (CRCs), based on ACT, Inc.’s WorkKeys®
employment system, are a portable skills credential that assures an
employer that a job applicant actually has the basic skills they
seek and is trainable for the job. Utilized as a workforce education
and development tool, Career Readiness Certificates bring employers,
student/jobseekers and education/workforce partners together in
building a skilled workforce, keeping and attracting businesses with
high-wage jobs to a state, and growing that state’s economy.

States implementing Career Readiness Certificates
across the nation utilize the WIN Courseware to build workplace
skills along with ACT, Inc.’s WorkKeys® assessments as a
common-language for education, workforce, and economic development.
WIN is the national leader in implementing Career Readiness
Certificates providing a portable credential that promotes career
development and skill attainment for the individual, and confirms to
employers that an individual possesses basic workplace skills that
all jobs require. WIN is the only entity to have implemented
statewide initiatives with Career Readiness Certificates and the WIN
Courseware is used as the skill-building tool helping students and
jobseekers earn Career Readiness Certificates in numerous statewide
programs from Florida to Alaska.

For more information on Career Readiness Certificates
or to purchase a copy of our CRC implementation handbook please
contact WIN at 1.888.717.9461.

For information about states issuing Career Readiness
Certificates visit www.CRCConsortium.org.

Quick Facts About Career Readiness
Certificates

Powered by the WorkKeys® assessments(a product of
ACT, Inc.)

Career Readiness Certificates document an
individuals’ skill levels in three areas:
Reading for
Information
Applied Mathematics
Locating Information

Career Readiness Certificates are issued based on
score levels achieved on the WorkKeys® assessments

Career Readiness Certificates offer certification
at three levels of achievement:
Bronze: A minimum Level 3
score on all assessments
Silver: A minimum Level 4 score on
all assessments
Gold: A minimum Level 5 score on all
assessments

Included with resumes, Career Readiness
Certificates can provide a summary report of the workplace skills
and individual possesses

Career Readiness Certificates open job
opportunities based on level of skill development:

Bronze: demonstrates a skill level of
eligibility for 30% of profiled jobs
Silver:
demonstrates a skill level of eligibility for 65% of profiled jobs

Gold: demonstrates a skill level of
eligibility for 90% of profiled jobs

This information is used with
written permission from the CRCC. For more information on the
certificates, please contact Barbara Bolin at [email-masked]

or at 804-310-2552.

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