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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.

Eau Claire County continues to lead the way in workforce development as Wisconsin's first designated ACT Work Ready Community - a milestone that reflects not just our success, but a collaborative vision for the future of our region's economy. ACT recently awarded an exemplar award to WRC champion CV Technical College.

The elite WRC certification indicates a county’s workforce quality and skills, said Lynette Livingston, CVTC provost and vice president of Academic and Student Affairs. Although Eau Claire is the first county in Wisconsin to earn the designation, 559 communities throughout the United States currently are certified. 

Career Pathways are a special blend of training and job progression. When the training includes post-secondary learning, the WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificate from ACT can translate to college credit that jumpstarts the learning journey. Awarding credit through Prior Learning Assessment, or PLA, for short, boosts confidence and increases the pace to program completion. Colleges increase enrollment while helping build the regional talent pipeline. 

The American Council of Education recently upgraded their recommendations on credit hours awarded for the NCRC. Join us on Episode 37 as we explore the benefits of PLA; make connections between WorkKeys levels and post-secondary performance; and examine how administrators and faculty can use WorkKeys Estimator to align their competencies to specific WorkKeys benchmarks.

Radial leaders from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, gathered recently for their day of learning and volunteer work and selected the Eau Claire County Work Ready project as their focus.  Following company training, they learned about Work Eau Claire, its benefits, and later spent the afternoon contacting employers not yet engaged with the project.&nb