National Career Readiness Certification Assessment

National Career Readiness Certificate

The Everett Public Schools is proud to provide its students with the opportunity to earn the nationally recognized career readiness certificate.

Momentum continues to build behind the National Career Readiness Certificate, which is now recognized as the most effective strategy for certifying workplace skills and predicting workplace success. When the NCRC^TM debuted in September 2006, 10 states were issuing their own credentials. Today, over one million certificates have been issued and more than 40 states have statewide or regional certificate programs.

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The NCRC Gets Personal: Introducing the NCRC Plus

Combining measures of cognitive skills with measures of work-related behaviors—or soft skills—brings even greater accuracy to predictions about an individual’s success at work or in training. In addition to the cognitive skills measured by the NCRC, the NCRC Plus ranks individuals in four soft skills categories.

The foundational skills certified by the NCRC and the NCRC Plus are recognized by thousands of employers as essential for workplace success and career advancement.

Source: ACT.org

Within the CareerReady101 course, available to all Senior Seminar students, is curriculum including pre-tests and self-paced interactive tutorials to help students understand and prepare for the NCRC assessment.

CareerReady101 access and assessment dates are communicated by the Senior Seminar Instructors.

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