ACT Center offers training                                                                    

Training employees to be productive and skillful is one of the most expensive problems facing businesses. Hiring an employee lacking crucial skills can lower productivity, drive down profits and put a drag on morale.

Fresno State’s ACT Center was established in 2001 to deliver state-of-the-art testing and training services to area employers in a convenient and cost-effective manner. The Center will relocate this month from Fresno State to Manchester Center,  “We are making an extensive library of training courseware available to area businesses,” said Dr. Thomas McClanahan, ACT Center executive director and associate vice president for Grants and Research at Fresno State. “We are now focused on testing employee or applicant skills through our Workkeys program, and we are also improving their job skills with training sessions using the latest technology.”

The ACT Center will provide small and medium-sized businesses, government agencies and individuals with a much broader range and higher quality of training than they have been able to access, enabling them to remain competitive with major corporations at a reasonable cost.

When The ACT Center is fully operational at Manchester Center, it will provide individualized, self-paced courseware, which will save time and money by notduplicating what employees already know; state-of-the-art technology for delivering training, education, and assessments; local training; support staff; and on-demand learning opportunities for individuals or groups.

For more information on how the ACT Center can assist your business needs, contact Deborah Walters, ACT Coordinator, at  8-0840.