Career Preparation Certificate Program
Benefits of the Program
The following are benefits that a successful Career Prep Certificate Program could offer to individuals and communities:
Individuals
- Match individual knowledge and skills to occupational expectations, regardless of educational requirements
- Match individual interests and preparation with job opportunities
- Focus exploration and preparation by career paths
- Document an individual’s mastery of knowledge and skills
- Promote postsecondary education and training based on personal plan of study
- Further postsecondary education and training supported by work-based experiences
- Emphasize the importance of academic and work readiness components
- Provide credentials that are valued and requested by employers and colleges
Communities
- Connect knowledge, skills, and testing for education and employers
- Predict readiness of individuals for work and college
- Require fewer resources for remediation and basic skills training
- Apprise the business community of the assessments currently used to assess knowledge and skills
- Improve job satisfaction, driving increased productivity and decreased turnover
- Verifiy entry-level workers’ knowledge and skills
- Identify real-world knowledge and skills needed by local and regional business
- Match individual knowledge and skills to occupational expectations, regardless of educational requirements
- Build stronger interdependency between education and employers
- Increase in partnership activity, communication, and support
- Foster a better educated and trained workforce
- Support economic and workforce development