Skill Standards answers two critical questions:

• What do workers need to know and be able to do to succeed in today’s workplace?
  
  
• And how do we know when workers are performing well?

Without this fundamental information, employers do not know whom to hire or where to focus their limited training dollars; employees and new entrants to the workforce do not know what they need to do to improve their performance; and educators do not know how to prepare students for the challenges of the workplace.

This site is designed to provide information about Washington's Skill Standards projects, link industry partners with schools and colleges, inform individuals about Skill Standards, and link Washington with national efforts. Funded by the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges through Washington State’s Federal School-to-Work Grant.