Workforce Preparedness

Workplace Essential Skills

Workplace Essential Skills and the PBS LiteracyLink® project-what they are, how the pieces (25-part television series, workbooks, and on-line lessons) work together, and how they can be used effectively to help learners find a job, or find a better job, and succeed in the workplace.

Key Concepts

• Why and how the Workplace Essential Skills television series was created
• What the PBS LiteracyLink project is.
• Overview of the video series with excerpts from such programs as "Applying for Jobs," "Planning to Work," "Measurements and Formulas," "Solving Problems," "A Process for Writing," "Working Together," and "Communicating with Customers."
• Online lessons
• Where to find help

LiteracyLink's goal is to provide a link for underserved and hard-to-reach adults and their teachers to quality adult basic education and GED preparation tools using technology. Combining video, the Internet, and print materials, LiteracyLink programs are relevant to the needs of the individual learner, adult instructional programs, and the workforce.

*Workshops are adapted to audience needs in each of the areas listed above for distance learning administrators and faculties as well as students and community based organizations.