NCCER Will Use the National Career Readiness Certificate to Help Construction Workers Succeed

ACT, Inc., and The National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) have announced a partnership designed to provide a common entry point to construction industry careers. ACT will apply its research and workforce readiness solutions to assist NCCER in ensuring that prospective and current construction industry workers have the essential foundational skills to succeed in NCCER accredited training courses and on the job.

Once launched, NCCER will begin issuing National Career Readiness Certificates to trainees to document their foundational skills. The National Career Readiness Certificate is comprised of three of ACT's WorkKeys® assessments measuring skills that ACT research has shown to be essential to workplace success. The assessments include Reading for Information, Applied Mathematics, and Locating Information. Based on these WorkKeys scores, NCCER trainees may earn a National Career Readiness Certificate. This Certificate serves as a nationwide entry point for further training. It is a credential that is portable, verifiable and easily understood. More than 1,200 construction sector jobs have been analyzed by ACT-trained profilers. The recommended skill levels for these jobs are included in ACT's JobPro database.

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