Alabama's Ready to Work program provides a career pathway for adults with limited education and employment experience at 39 locations. Ready to Work's workplace environment provides trainees the entry level skills required for employment with most businesses and industries in Alabama. The training curriculum is set to standards cited by business and industry employers throughout the state, and the skills cited in the U. S. Department of Labor’s Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) Reports.

Ready to Work is operated through Alabama’s Adult Education Program in cooperation with AIDT. Clients admitted to the program must be at least 16 years of age, must not be enrolled in high school, and must function at or below the 12.9 level on the Test for Adult Basic Education (TABE). Essential requirements for successful completion include:

• 95 percent attendance and punctuality rate;
• instructor certification of satisfactory achievement of work ethic, organizational skills, and appropriate attitude and motivation;
• instructor certification of satisfactory achievement of problem solving skills, workplace behaviors, computer skills, and job acquisition skills;
• instructor certification of satisfactory achievement of manufacturing skills;
• attainment of a minimum WorkKeys Assessment Level 3 on Applied Mathematics, Reading for Information, and Locating Information;
• performance at the tenth grade level or above upon completion as verified by TABE; and,
• a score of at least 70 percent on the written Alabama Certified Worker Examination.

Successful completion results in the award of an Alabama Certified Worker Certificate and a state career readiness credential.