Help Validate the Profile

Front line supervisors from businesses across the country have helped the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) define a cross-industry foundation of knowledge and skills new workers need. We think we have constructed a new national standard for what it means to be work ready. However, we want to make sure that you agree that these are the essential skills and abilities that are necessary to gain successful entry to the workplace.

Please carefully review the EFF Work Readiness Profile: What New Workers In Entry Level Jobs Need to be Able to Do. As you can see, it identifies four categories of essential skills: communication, interpersonal, decision making and lifelong learning skills. It also identifies the entry-level tasks that require use of those skills. The assessment tool will test whether a jobseeker can in fact use those skills to perform the tasks listed.

Tell us if an assessment tool based on this profile would make a difference for your business by answering the questions on the survey. Your response will help us create the tool we need to build a 21st century workforce.

Fill out the EFF Work Readiness Survey. (pdf format)