Talent Solutions for Employers: AssessmentS to help you choose the right candidates.
How can CareerSource NEFL assist your company in making better hiring decisions?
CareerSource NEFL can assist you in screening applicants for your open positions by assessing their skills and how they relate to their job readiness skills. This will benefit you by assisting in your screening processes to create a more robust application, allowing the right candidates to shine. These assessments are employer-driven based on the job opening identified skills.
These assessments are proctored in our Career Centers in NEFL.
We have facilities available to conduct these assessments with trained staff to perform for your organization.
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Nearly 90% of Florida’s workforce leaders have said they have struggled to find qualified talent. More frequently than not, business leaders noted a “lack of basic employability skills – punctuality, accountability, numeracy, and literacy – among the current talent pool.”
Florida Workforce Needs Study 2.0
Florida Chamber of Commerce – 2024
Florida Ready to Work: Answering Florida Employers’ Demands
Florida employers repeatedly point to the lack of essential employability skills as a primary barrier to job creation and economic growth.
More than 80 percent of Florida business leaders across industry sectors surveyed by the Florida Chamber of Commerce “emphasized the importance of employability skills. These skills, including communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving, are universally valuable work competencies essential to adapt to shifting demands within and between careers.”
Leading the way in responding to employer demand, Florida has invested in the Florida Ready to Work program.
Florida Ready to Work provides foundational employability skills training in partnership with school districts, workforce systems, state colleges, technical centers, adult education, juvenile justice, correction, employers, and other community-based partners statewide.
Those who successfully complete the program earn up to three stackable credentials, proof that the individual is ready to work. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs the credentials, recognized as a common measure of foundational employability and skill readiness for most jobs across industry sectors.
Employability Skills Training and Credentialing
Florida Ready to Work provides online career-contextualized training that develops the foundational skills required by most jobs across industries. The training is self-directed, self-paced, and accessible from any computer or tablet, anywhere, anytime.
Digital Skills
Digital Skills covers in-demand foundational technology skills, including computer operations, internet browsing, creating and sharing digital documents, and using common digital communication and security tools.
Computer Operations
The ability to identify different types of devices, parts of a computer, software applications, and operate computers in a professional setting.
Internet Browsing
The ability to connect to the internet, navigate the world wide web, and identify and use different browsers.
Digital Communications
The ability to identify and use digital communication tools such as email, video conferencing, instant messaging, and social media in a professional setting.
Digital Security
To understand the purpose of security policies and procedures, password security, privacy settings, security software, and VPNs and their importance in the workplace.
Digital Documents
The ability to use and create common workplace digital documents, such as word processing documents, spreadsheets, slide presentations, online forms, and shared documents.
Soft Skills
Soft Skills features highly interactive digital training focused on in-demand employability skills, including conveying professionalism, communicating effectively, working well in a team, collaborating, thinking critically, and solving problems.
Communicating Effectively
Verbal and nonverbal communication and listening; use of communication tools including email etiquette, cell phone, and social networking; resolving conflict; and acknowledging criticism.
Conveying Professionalism
Dependability, courtesy, attitude, motivation, personal accountability, and time management.
Promoting Teamwork and Collaboration
Teamwork skills and interactions, benefits of diversity and sensitivity to differences, accepting responsibility, and leadership.
Thinking Critically and Solving Problems
Innovation, creativity, flexibility, overcoming adversity, goal setting, and critical thinking strategies.
Academic Employability Skills Training
Work Ready Math
Work Ready Math builds mathematical reasoning and problem-solving skills to prepare learners to solve real-life workplace problems, such as calculating dimensions, costs, and percentages; reviewing transactions to ensure accuracy; and comparing rates.
Work Ready Reading
Work Ready Reading builds reading comprehension and reasoning skills to prepare learners to utilize documents in the workplace, such as memos, letters, directions, signs, notices, policies, and regulations. Skills include obtaining and applying new vocabulary; following complex instructions; and understanding policies and procedures.
Work Ready Data
Work Ready Data builds analytical skills to prepare learners to interpret sources of data in the workplace, such as charts, graphs, tables, flowcharts, diagrams, and maps. Skills include identifying trends among variables, recognizing significant and extraneous data points, and drawing conclusions from one or more sources of data.
To earn the Florida Ready to Work Credential – Academic Employability Skills, participants must pass three, one-hour proctored assessments validating mastery of foundational workplace math, reading, and data analysis skills.
There are four Achievement Levels that correlate with the U.S. Department of Labor O*NET Job Zones 2-3-4-5, the nation’s primary source of occupational data. The levels build on each other with each higher level indicating readiness for more jobs.
Those who pass the three assessments earn the Florida Ready to Work Credential which is issued by the State of Florida and signed by the Governor.
Florida Ready to Work Achievement Levels
Achievement Level 5
Earning an Achievement Level 5 Florida Ready to Work Credential indicates that the learner has the foundational employability skills to pursue O*NET Job Zone Level 5 career pathways.
Achievement Level 4
Earning an Achievement Level 4 Florida Ready to Work Credential indicates that the learner has the foundational employability skills to pursue O*NET Job Zone Level 4 career pathways.
Achievement Level 3
Earning an Achievement Level 3 Florida Ready to Work Credential indicates that the learner has the foundational employability skills to pursue O*NET Job Zone Level 3 career pathways.
Achievement Level 2
Earning an Achievement Level 2 Florida Ready to Work Credential indicates that the learner has the foundational employability skills to pursue O*NET Job Zone Level 2 career pathways.
The Achievement Level is a composite work-ready indicator based on the lowest passing score across all three assessments required to earn the credential. For more information about the correlation between the Achievement Level and O*NET Job Zone, visit https://onetonline.org/help/online/zones.
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