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NWCET can assist your enterprise in the development of skill standards based IT staff training programs, IT technical personnel evaluations, IT HR applications, and IT strategic plans. Contact us for more information.

Skill Standards

Potential uses of skill standards in business and industry include performance review and evaluation, job descriptions, selection and orientation, certification, and training and development. Skill standards enable employers to:

  • Establish personnel qualification and/or certification requirements
  • Design appropriate training programs and measure their effectiveness
  • Assess employee skill levels based on industry standards
  • Match employee skills to the work needed
  • Improve customer satisfaction and confidence
  • Improve employee satisfaction and morale by clarifying expectations
  • More easily document employee skills, training needs, and performance quality
  • Impove quality, productivity, time to market, and competitiveness
  • Achieve business goals

Purchase Skills Standards for Information Technology 2003
For information on how to adapt the Skill Standards to your needs, please contact us.

NWCET is a division of Bellevue Community College, and is partially funded by National Science Foundation grants.


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