Value of Credentials
November 7, 2014
Today’s Webinar
Critical Shortages and Common Skill Needs
Benefits of Assessments and Credentials
NAM-endorsed Credentialing System
Focus: NCRC, MSSC, NIMS
What are they?
How do they work?
What resources $$$ are available to offset costs?
How can I get my company started?
Acute & Critical Challenge
Growth = need for more workers
Will be exacerbated by retirements
Compounded by competition from oil and
gas industry for insufficient talent pool
Weak talent pipeline due to
misperceptions about industry
Assessments and Credentials can:
Reduce Turnover
Improve Retention
Improve Production Increase Productivity
Make Better Promotion Decisions
Reduce on-the-job Training Time
Improve Workplace Safety and Higher Product Quality
Assessments and Credentials can help you to:
• Identify candidates and validate they have the skills required to
do the job.
• Add standards to hiring practices, forming objective criteria for
the application process.
• Save money and increase the bottom line.
• Develop a certified professional, technical workforce creating
more innovative, more competitive and better candidates for
promotion.
• Increase Return on Investment, measuring economic impact and
HR savings
Value of Assessments and Credentials
• Specific skill levels have been identified by national research
• Credentials validate a candidate’s skills
• Nationally recognized credentials demonstrate a job seeker
can do the job
• Costly hiring mistakes are minimized when an employer has
proof of a candidate’s skill level
NAM-endorsed Skills Certification System
• Developed by manufacturers for manufacturers
• System of industry-based credentials
• Validate skills and competencies needed to be productive and
successful in a manufacturing environment
• Based on third-party assessment using standards set by industry
• Not dependent on a particular program. Instead, demonstrated
skill
• Endorsed certifications that are nationally portable, third-party
validated, and industry-supported with data on results for
manufacturers
NAM-endorsed Skills Certification System
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NCRC National Career Readiness Certificate
• Demonstrates a certain level of workplace employability skills by
taking three WorkKeys assessments:
• Applied Mathematics
• Locating Information
• Reading for Information
• Measure "real world" skills that are critical to job success
• A job skills assessment system that helps employers select, hire,
train, develop, and retain a high-performance workforce
• Test questions are based on situations in everyday work
Three Components of the System
• Job Analysis
What skills and skill levels are needed in today’s
jobs/occupations?
• Assessment
What work skills and skill level does the individual currently
have?
• Training
How can skill gaps be addressed in training programs?
Job Analysis and Assessment
• Pinpoint the position
• Compare to WorkKeys analysis of similar position
• Test the employee/candidate
Pinpoint the position
• Determining which WorkKeys level matches occupation
• Benchmark potential employees based on occupational
needs
• WorkKeys foundational skills are based on occupational
profiles that provide a benchmark to compare job skills
Job Analysis
Assessment
• Testing gives reliable information about an employee/candidate’s
skills and how they compare to skill levels required for the
position
WorkKeys and Common Occupation Levels
• Determining which WorkKeys level matches occupation
Levels
• Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum
• Building a profile for common occupations
How will WorkKeys benefit my organization?
Finding and keeping the right workers
• Hiring costs
• Training costs
• Turnover costs
Data/Case Studies
• Over 14,000 jobs profiled
• Over 2,500 businesses have used WorkKeys
• Over 10 million assessments
• Referenced on O*NET
• Northrup Grumman reduced turnover by 20% by implementing
WorkKeys testing
• Honeywell reduced defective parts per million from 40k+ to <10k
Testimonials from OH-PENN employers
How do candidates earn credentials?
• Current employees
• Pinpointing employee skills
• Helping current employees achieve career goals through
WorkKeys
• Potential employees
• Requesting WorkKeys from candidates
• Testing candidates
WorkKeys is no-cost
NAM-endorsed MSSC Certification
• The Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) is a non-profit,
industry-led, training, assessment and certification system
• Focused on the core skills and knowledge
• Industry-defined and federally-endorsed standards
• Offers candidates the opportunity to demonstrate skills
• MSSC offers two certifications:
• Certified Production Technician (CPT)
• Certified Logistics Technician (CLT)
NAM-endorsed NIMS Certification
• The National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) was formed by
the metalworking trade associations NIMS certifies individual skills
against the national standards
• Requires that the candidate meet both performance and theory
requirements
• Examinations are industry-designed and industry-piloted
• Industry uses the credentials to recruit, hire, place and promote
individual workers
• 52 distinct NIMS skill certifications
Next steps
• For New Hires
Contact
Career
Pathways
Coach
Discuss
timeframe
and specifics;
meet with
CPC
Maintain
contact with
candidate and
CPC
Receive
scores
Next steps
• For Incumbent Workers
Contact Career
Pathways Coach;
discuss specifics
Have CPC meet
with incumbent
worker(s)
Let CPC know
which worker(s)
took test
Schedule and
confirm
day/time/location
for testing
Receive
scores/results
Contact Information
Career Pathways Coaches
Ohio
Cynthia Grier
cynthia@onestopohio.org
330-420-9675
Pennsylvania
Greg Blashak
gblashak@wcjp.org
724-347-9257
Thank you
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