Our Mission
Empowering Tennessee's Skilled Workforce
SkillsUSA Tennessee College/Postsecondary prepares students to become world-class workers, leaders, and responsible American citizens through leadership development, technical skill attainment, workplace readiness, and meaningful partnerships with education and industry.
Career Ready. Leadership Ready.
Connecting Education With Opportunity
Serving Tennessee's community colleges, Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology, universities, and other eligible postsecondary institutions, SkillsUSA connects classroom learning with real-world experiences that prepare students for high-demand careers and lifelong success.
What We Believe
Every Student Deserves the Opportunity to Succeed
We believe every career and technical education student should have access to experiences that strengthen technical ability, leadership, confidence, and professional readiness.
Develop Technical Excellence
Build the knowledge, precision, safety, and technical competence required by today's employers.
Build Leadership Skills
Strengthen communication, teamwork, professionalism, responsibility, and decision-making.
Serve Communities
Develop responsible citizens who understand the value of service, advocacy, and community involvement.
Connect With Industry
Engage with employers, technical experts, mentors, judges, recruiters, and workforce leaders.
Compete at the Highest Level
Demonstrate technical, workplace, and leadership skills through state and national competition.
Graduate Career Ready
Leave college prepared to contribute, lead, adapt, and succeed in a changing workforce.
Our Purpose
Preparing Tennessee's Future Workforce
SkillsUSA Tennessee College/Postsecondary strengthens career and technical education by bringing together students, educators, administrators, workforce organizations, and industry partners around a common goal.
Through conferences, competitions, leadership development, professional learning, and industry engagement, we help students develop the skills employers value while supporting the economic strength of Tennessee.
Our Impact
Statewide Reach. Measurable Results.
Leadership development begins at the local chapter level and extends through state and national conferences, competitions, advocacy, industry engagement, and career-connected experiences.
The SkillsUSA Framework
A Blueprint for Career Readiness
The SkillsUSA Framework defines the essential skills students develop through every chapter, conference, competition, and leadership experience.
Personal Skills
Integrity, responsibility, adaptability, work ethic, self-motivation, and professionalism.
Workplace Skills
Communication, teamwork, leadership, decision-making, planning, customer service, and multicultural awareness.
Technical Skills
Technical knowledge, safety, quality, problem-solving, innovation, academic application, and lifelong learning.
Who We Serve
Supporting Students, Educators, and Workforce Partners
SkillsUSA Tennessee College/Postsecondary serves the people and institutions that prepare Tennessee's future workforce.
Our Commitment
Building Stronger Connections Across Tennessee
We are committed to building strong partnerships between education, business and industry, workforce organizations, and government while providing every member opportunities to lead, compete, grow, and succeed.
Together, we are developing Tennessee's future workforce, one student, one chapter, and one career at a time.