Talk:WorkKeys
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COI, Plagiarism
[edit]This article was written by user ACTUpdate - since the ACT is the vendor behind the WorkKeys test, this seems to be a major conflict of interest. In addition, sentences like "The higher the skill levels, the more jobs for which the applicant qualifies." are plagiarized from ACT materials available on the web. Given that almost the entire article was drafted by ACTUpdate, perhaps the article should be deleted. If the subject is notable enough for an encyclopedia, it can be built back up from a stub, with appropriate sources. Greenth (talk) 03:44, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
- No. The information is factual - I have experience with the process and systems. The article can certainly always be IMPROVED with more information properly sourced, but I see no COI here whatsoever. 98.67.191.36 (talk) 11:02, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Litigation, Labor Department Issues
[edit]Certain employers' use of the WorkKeys tests have been investigated by the US Department of Labor, which found on several occasions that the way the employers used the tests unfairly discriminated against as many as 1,000 applicants.
From Reveal News:
Take the popular job tests called WorkKeys. They’re timed multiple-choice exams like the ones students take in school, developed by the well-known testing company ACT Inc. and promoted across the country with taxpayer money. Major employers, including the Campbell Soup Co., Unilever, Mars Inc., Siemens and Medtronic, make applicants take the tests to get hired for some positions. Millions of people have taken them to get a “career readiness” certificate that they hope will give them a leg up in the job hunt.
But federal officials have blamed employers for using the WorkKeys tests in illegally discriminatory ways in six cases over the past decade, affecting more than 1,000 people of color and women, according to Labor Department records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
At a California factory for Leprino Foods Co., the world’s largest producer of mozzarella cheese, WorkKeys put 253 Latino, black and Asian applicants at a disadvantage, the department found. Leprino Foods eventually agreed to pay $550,000 and hire 13 of the rejected job seekers.
At a chemical plant in Virginia, an auto parts factory in upstate New York and an engine plant in Alabama, the tests also illegally screened out minority applicants, according to Labor Department records. At a General Electric Lighting plant in Ohio and an aluminum factory near Spokane, Washington, the employers' inappropriate use of the WorkKeys tests unfairly hurt the chances of female applicants, officials found.
The way the employers used the tests didn’t adequately measure whether an applicant would be good at the job, violating civil rights protections, according to the government. The employers paid a settlement to unsuccessful applicants and scrapped the tests.
PaleoLiberal (talk) 14:31, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
References
Country?
[edit]This is an American program, but the lead jumps right in without stating that it is. 37.99.83.190 (talk) 09:56, 18 December 2017 (UTC)