It’s difficult to find and keep skilled workers and it’s difficult for woodworkers to show what they know during the interview process. Today we have Standards and Assessments for over 240 woodworking operations, the most-performed operations in our industry. Evaluate your hard-earned, lifelong woodworking skills using industry approved performance standards, earn multiple levels of credentials. For the first time students and educators of woodwork manufacturing can have skills certified by Accredited Skill Evaluators using  industry standards.

Several prominent advanced woodworking firms tested the first-in-the-industry Woodwork Skill Standards.
WoodLINKS USA and The Woodwork Career Alliance of North America (WCA) have combined forces to explore the prospect of merging these two organizations.
This merger, subject to final approval by the Board of Directors for both organizations, will enable WoodLINKS USA members to become Education members of the Woodwork Career Alliance. The Woodwork Career Alliance’s Credentialing program was established in 2011, and is rapidly being adapted by industry as the standard for training and evaluating personnel in the Wood Industry.

Merging these two organizations will provide a stronger network to train and evaluate current and future woodworkers. A special credential for high school students, the Saw Blade certificate is being created to help students begin their credentialing journey and career path.

Shed garden design Build shed door