Florida Ready to Work – School District Implementation

As Florida’s state-sponsored career readiness program, Florida Ready to Work is a free, flexible and customizable solution to prepare your students for work. Those who complete the program earn up to three stackable credentials, signed by Governor Ron DeSantis and recognized as a common measure of foundational employability skill readiness for most jobs across industry sectors, including soft skills, digital skills, and academic employability skills.

What are the Senate Bill 240 requirements for Florida Ready to Work? 

Senate Bill 240 requires that school districts notify students currently enrolled or entering high school of the Florida Ready to Work program, at the beginning of each school year. 

Does Florida Ready to Work offer training? 

Yes! Florida Ready to Work offers free, online career-contextualized training to help your students develop the foundational employability skills required for most jobs across industries.  The training is interactive and self-paced with real-time reporting tools for monitoring student progress. 

What are the credentials available through Florida Ready to Work? 

Florida Ready to Work offers three stackable credentials showing an individual’s mastery of soft skills, digital skills, and academic employability skills.

  • Florida Ready to Work – Soft Skills Credential
    To earn the Soft Skills Credential, learners must pass a one-hour proctored assessment validating mastery of workplace communication, professionalism, teamwork, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
  • Florida Ready to Work – Digital Skills Credential
    To earn the Digital Skills Credential, learners must pass a one-hour proctored assessment validating mastery of the technology skills needed in the         workplace, including computer operations, internet browsing, creating and sharing digital documents, and using common digital communication and security tools.
  • Florida Ready to Work – Academic Employability Skills Credential
    To earn the Academic Employability Skills Credential, learners must pass three,  proctored assessments validating mastery of foundational workplace math, reading, and data analysis skills. There are four Achievement Levels that correlate with the U.S. Department of Labor O*NET Job Zones 2-3-4-5, the nation’s primary source of occupational data. The levels build on each other with each higher level indicating readiness for more jobs.

    Schools can offer one, two, or all three credentialing solutions to their students.  

Where is Florida Ready to Work available? 

Program services are delivered in collaboration with the Florida school districts / schools, state colleges, technical centers, adult education programs, CareerSource Florida networks, juvenile justice, corrections, community-based organizations, and employers.

Communicating Florida Ready to Work to Parents and Students

The Florida Ready to Work team has created customizable materials to help you communicate the Florida Ready to Work program to parents and students in your district.

 

Download these free materials here:

Overview Flyer

Parent / Student Guide  - Coming Soon

Learn more about Florida Ready to Work –

If you are new to Florida Ready to Work or would like to hear about the enhancements for the 2023-24 school year, please watch our most recent Florida Ready to Work Overview webinar from August 15.


If you are ready to bring the Florida Ready to Work program to your school, contact your local Customer Success Manager today:


For School Districts in:

Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Brevard, Calhoun, Citrus, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval, Escambia, Flagler, Franklin, Gadsden, Gilchrist, Gulf, Hamilton, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lake, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Madison, Marion, Nassau, Okaloosa, Orange, Osceola, Putnam, Santa Rosa, Seminole, St. Johns, Sumter, Suwanee, Taylor, Union, Volusia, Wakulla, Walton, Washington,

Contact: Valencia Strowder, Senior Customer Success Manager, vstrowder@floridareadytowork.com


For School Districts in:

Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota, St. Lucie

Contact: Holly McFadden, Customer Success Manager, hmcfadden@floridareadytowork.com