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ACT Impact and Giving Report Highlights Pathways to Student Success December 02, 2025

ACT empowers learners by removing barriers and creating pathways to success through programs like fee waivers, scholarships, and grants. In FY2025, we supported 477K students, 210K fee waivers, 27 scholarships, and 54 grants nationwide. Learn more in the 2025 Impact Report.

SS Magazine Publishes Location Profiles with NCRC Trends November 21, 2025

Site Selection Magazine's November edition includes a dozen location spotlights that include WorkKeys NCRC growth trends to demonstrate workforce quality. Features include Kansas, the Dakotas, Virginia, Nebraska, New York, Mississippi, Washington, and Wyoming.

Work for Warriors Mississippi Connects Employers to Guard Member with WorkKeys NCRC June 21, 2024

Work for Warriors, a program from the Mississippi National Guard, celebrated the success of a recent pilot with the WorkKeys NCRC.  All 154 soldiers statewide earned the National Career Readiness Certificate from ACT. More than half of those newly certified guard members are eager to connect with local employers. 

The Mississippi National Guard’s Battle Hand Off Ceremony is July 19th through 21st at the Camp Shelby Joint Force Training Center in Hattiesburg. Employers slated to attend include AWS, Milwaukee Tool, NUCOR Steel, and Continental Tire. Work for Warriors encourages all local employers with current openings to attend.

Golden Triangle celebrates success of WorkKeys and WRC June 18, 2021

“I think the Work Ready certification demonstrated something we here in the Golden Triangle are particularly good at: Teamwork around an initiative,” noted Macaulay Whitaker, COO. “We had to have everybody involved to make it work: The LINK, EMCC, community leaders, county and city government and the high schools. Establishing WorkKeys as a tool at every level was a big part of that.”

Slimantics: Passing the WorkKeys March 11, 2019

Developed by the ACT company, the WorkKeys test is the career-track equivalent of the ACT, which is used to assess college preparedness. 

 

For 12 years now, EMCC has been offering these tests. 

 

"When we started our manufacturing skills classes back in 2006 and 2007, we knew we wanted to use WorkKeys," said Jim Huerkamp, EMCC's project manager for skills development. "We weren't exactly sure how we wanted to use it at first, but over the years, it's turned out to be a valuable tool to assess workplace skills."