Use Knowledge Well

This unique workforce solution is the result of a collaboration among three strategic partners and leverages the distinct abilities of each partner:

National Center for Telecommunications Technologies (NCTT) - knowledge leaders in the telecommunication and convergence fields.

Applied Skills Knowledge (AS&K) - innovators in assessment content, design, and delivery.

Global Skills X-Change (GSX) - experts in skill standards and certification - comprised of members of the original team who designed the ICT skill standards.

What can TECHwize Solution do for you?

Identify performance and skill gaps.
Align hiring process with identified skill gaps.
Update current and develop new workforce skill information.
Assess pre- or post-training skill and knowledge levels.
Certify technicians for hiring or promotion.
Facilitate convergence staffing strategies.
Allow employers and employees to identify and address areas of growth potential.

Why the TECHwize Solution?

Offers diverse range of use such as diagnosing human capital ROI, lifelong learning guidance.
Keeps pace with changing industry and economic needs.
Guarantees valid, relevant content through psychometrics and item analysis.
Adapts to and integrates with existing assessment requirements.
Decreases training costs by utilizing structured content to more effectively target training needs.
Eliminates time interval requirements between assessments through use of the item bank approach.

In the new economy and the merging/converging landscape of the Telecommunications and Information Technology arenas, technology-driven and technology-dependent organizations are faced with maintaining, sustaining and creating a highly skilled, adaptable workforce.

The TECHwize Solution provides an efficient, effective and flexible way to hire, train and manage the talent you need to thrive in a knowledge-driven economy. TECHwize Solution contains a system of nationally validated assessments that measure the skill and knowledge level(s) of your current and future workforce. TECHwize Solution requires a proctored test taking environment.

The TECHwize Solution assessments are grounded in the item-bank approach to testing and are formulated based on valid, reliable and continually refreshed content. The skill and knowledge-based items are developed using the National Skill Standards as a blueprint to ensure their clear linkage to critical work and tasks. The National Information Communication Technology (ICT) Skill Standards were developed by industry leaders including Cisco, Intel, AT&T, Novell, Microsoft and more. Each assessment is vendor neutral, comprehensive, current and can assess or certify professionals with varying levels of experience.

Download a one-page information sheet in PDF format:

DEVICEwize
Network Device Assessment
Use for job roles such as...
- Technical Support Technicians
- Help Desk Technicians
- Computer Technicians

techNIwize
Network Infrastructure Assessment
Use for job roles such as...
- Field Support Technicians
- Network Support Technicians
- Service Center Technicians

Experience an item bank assessment. Take it multiple times...same assessment, different items

For an Assessment Demo please visit:
http://appliedskills.com/techwize
Username: techwize; Password: demo

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Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those
of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.

This material is based on work
supported by the
National Science Foundation
under Grant Number DUE 0302548.

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