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Career Readiness Assessments & Courseware
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Credentials
The Essential Soft Skills Credential is composed of questions measuring entry-level work tasks and behaviors, including Communicating Effectively, Conveying Professionalism, Promoting Teamwork & Collaboration, and Thinking Critically & Solving Problems. The assessment items present real workplace scenarios and require the learner to choose the “best” and “worst” answers for handling each situation.
Successfully passing the assessment and earning the credential shows that the job seeker has the interpersonal skills employers demand.
The Work Ready Credential is a workforce education and development tool comprised of three proctored assessments: Work Ready Math, Work Ready Reading, and Work Ready Data. It brings employers, learners and job seekers, and education and workforce partners together in building a skilled workforce, while keeping and attracting businesses with higher-wage jobs and economic growth. Learners who successfully pass all three assessments receive a credential signed by the governor.
The Digital Literacy Credential is based on the five foundational technology skills needed to succeed in the modern workplace: computer operations, internet browsing, digital communication, digital documents, and digital security. Upon earning the South Carolina Digital Literacy Credential, learners and job seekers can certify to employers that they have the skills and knowledge to perform the basic yet necessary computing tasks most commonly used in the workplace.
The Professional Skills Credential is a combination credential that is earned by passing both the Essential Soft Skills and Digital Literacy Assessments. Job seekers who earn the credential can show employers that they not only have the communication and problem-solving skills needed in the workplace, but they also have demonstrated mastery of common workplace technologies.
Courseware
Essential Soft Skills Courseware helps learners develop and demonstrate attitudinal and behavioral skills that are essential to success in the workplace and school. The courseware consists of four modules: Communicating Effectively, Conveying Professionalism, Promoting Teamwork and Collaboration, and Thinking Critically and Solving Problems. Each module contains a pretest, instructional content, and a posttest. Essential Soft Skills Courseware is a blended learning solution that supplements the online content with offline classroom activities and culminating capstone projects.
Work Ready Courseware is a self-paced course in which learners will develop the foundational workplace skills required for most jobs from entry level to professional. It is made up of three modules: Work Ready Math, Work Ready Reading, and Work Ready Data. Each module contains a placement test and five course levels, each with a pretest, instructional content, practice exercises, and posttest. Certificates of Completion are awarded to the learner after successfully passing the posttest in all three core modules, indicating that the learner is proficient in the skills.
Digital Literacy Courseware is a self-paced course designed to provide participants with the skills needed to navigate technology in the workplace. It is comprised of five modules: Computer Operations, Internet Browsing, Digital Communications, Digital Documents, and Digital Security. Each module is made up of a pretest, course component, and a posttest. Each course has instructional content, a knowledge-check quiz, and a hands-on practice exercise that allows the participant to apply the skills to real life, practical situations.
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WIN Learning is offering preview access and valued pricing to its award-winning career readiness courseware for South Carolina schools.
Contact Ken Boddie at kboddie@winlearning.com or call 704-430-1756.