Advanced Learning Academy LLC · Federal Fit
One person is one work-fit report. You choose how many.
See it first: full sample report · sample dashboard. Then pick 6, 30, 100, or 290. Packs are quantity. The product does not change.
Contents
Ten questions this packet answers
- 01 What one person gets — six work domains, not a hire
- 02 What you get for each person (see the samples)
- 03 What the N = 1,000 retention observation is
- 04 Permitted vs prohibited uses
- 05 Security and FedRAMP status
- 06 Section 508 ACR
- 07 Data — IDs only, no names or SSN
- 08 How people complete it (anytime, no expiry)
- 09 How you will know it succeeded
- 10 Packet for a cardholder or contracting officer
Question 1
Grow people in occupational families they can actually do.
Federal programs need a development map, not another hiring exam. Fifty questions. Occupational-family maps for research and discussion. ID-only — no personnel file. Not USAJOBS, not an IQ score, and not a hiring, ranking, cutoff, grade, clearance, or referral device.
USAJOBS posts openings. People still apply there. The ten-point fit comparison lives on the product page, after what we do: realworldcareers.com/federal#usajobs. USA Hire / OPM remain the hiring-exam path. We are not a substitute for those.
Question 2
What you get for each person
Two rates. $50 a person is the work-fit and the ZIP job list. $95 a person adds one practice exam. No minimum. Look at the files, then name the count.
| For that one person | What it is |
|---|---|
| The assessment | 50 questions, ~45–60 minutes, how they think at work |
| The report | Six-domain profile + occupational families for discussion. Same fifty-question sitting as the public $199. Full 12-page sample → |
| How you find it | The seat wallet. Download PDF on that row for 14 days. The same PDF is emailed to the buyer. Sample dashboard → |
| How you keep it | Download the one-page PDF. It is yours. We do not store a name. After 14 days we delete our copy |
| When they can take it | Anytime. Seats do not expire. One completer per seat |
The written item is the SOW: SOW-SCALE-14500.
Question 3
No retention figure is cited.
| Fact | Status |
|---|---|
| The number | Not cited. No public data file is locked. |
| Employer | Verified employment context. Not a federal agency. No CPARS |
| What it is | Observational. Not a randomized trial. Not proof the next cohort hits these rates |
| What it is not | Not a job guarantee. Not a qualification determination. Not federal past performance |
Full write-up: case-retention-9-month. Method class: research evidence.
Question 4
Where Federal Fit is defensible — and where it is not
| Use | Agency still must | |
|---|---|---|
| Exploration / counseling | Permitted | Tell participants this is not a qualification determination |
| Internal mobility / development | Permitted | Human review. Do not auto-route people solely on scores |
| Workforce planning / series language | Permitted | Treat maps as decision support, not authorized staffing tables |
| Screening, ranking, cutoffs, selection | Prohibited as sold | If the agency later wants selection use, it needs current job analysis and its own validity evidence under OPM/EEOC rules. ALA does not sell Federal Fit as a pass/fail or ranking device |
ALA responsibilities: label intended use at kickoff; no eligibility, grade, clearance, or hire output; export for the agency’s file. Agency responsibilities: job analysis before any selection use; adverse-impact monitoring if they expand use; human decision-maker. Gap table for CHCO/EEO: validation gap-assessment. OPM: job analysis. EEOC: Uniform Guidelines Q&A.
Question 5
Can a CIO approve this cloud service?
FedRAMP not authorized Only the buying agency decides whether its use is inside FedRAMP scope. File: SSP-lite · vendor security assessment · architecture.
- Boundary: public HTTPS site and APIs on Cloudflare (Pages, Workers, D1, R2). Stripe processes cards. Mailgun sends transactional mail.
- Data flow: browser → TLS → Cloudflare Worker/Pages → D1 credential and score store. No agency on-prem agent.
- No camera, mic, or geo. Cards never touch ALA servers.
- Incident: notify the named agency contact within 72 hours of a confirmed breach involving that agency’s roster.
- SSO/SAML: not in this SKU. Participants use emailed unique links. ALA admin consoles use Cloudflare/Stripe MFA.
FedRAMP 2026 scope. This packet is not an authorization.
Question 6
Section 508 Accessibility Conformance Report
Vendor self-assessment ACR (Revised Section 508 / VPAT®-style), criterion-level WCAG 2.1 A/AA, dated 29 Aug 2026. Not a third-party lab certificate. Micro-purchases are not exempt from Section 508. Download: ACR.
Question 7
Participant data — collect, own, see, delete
Federal-specific addendum: data processing. The public privacy policy is not a substitute for that addendum.
- Collected to make the file: the answers, in memory, for the minute of scoring. Stored: buyer email, seat code, used or unused, and the PDF for 14 days. No names. No employee number. No classified data.
- Owner: the agency owns the PDF it downloads. After 14 days ALA deletes its copy and cannot rebuild the grade.
- Who sees it: named agency admins; ALA operators on a need-to-know basis; not sold; not used to train a public model from this cohort.
- Delete: 30 days after written agency request, except legal hold. Confirm in writing.
Question 8
How people complete it — anytime, no expiry
- The buyer opens the wallet from the purchase email. Numbered seat codes. They send the link in their own mail. We do not take worker names.
- Auth: unique seat link, not PIV/SSO in this SKU.
- Duration: about 45–60 minutes. Seats do not expire. Testing anytime. One completer per seat.
- Browsers: current Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox. Phone usable; desktop preferred for the report.
- Retakes: one completer per seat unless the agency asks to reset an unused/incomplete seat.
- Accommodations: extra time / pause on written request to team@ before the session. Not a medical exam.
- Help desk: 1-317-751-5444 and team@advancedlearning.academy, weekdays 9:00–17:00 America/New_York. Same-day response target on business days.
- Integrity: no remote proctoring camera. Honor system plus server-side item lock. Not a high-stakes selection exam.
Question 9
How you will know the cohort succeeded
| Measure | Owner | Target / rule |
|---|---|---|
| Baseline keep or time-to-fill (if the agency has it) | Agency | Provided at kickoff or marked “not available” |
| Invite completion rate | ALA export | 70% of invited seats completed in 30 days is a delivery success, not a retention success |
| Usable-profile rate | ALA | Completed sessions produce a six-domain report |
| Participant experience | Agency optional pulse | Not scored by ALA |
| Mobility / placement actions | Agency | 30/60/90-day actions the agency logs. ALA does not place federal staff |
| Final briefing | Joint | Accepted or issues listed in writing |
| Expansion | Agency | Only after intended-use lock remains exploration/mobility/development |
| Rollback | Agency | Stop new invites. Do not use scores for selection. Unused seats stay unused |
Question 10
Packet a cardholder can hand a contracting officer
Being under the micro-purchase threshold does not, by itself, authorize a buy. The purchaser needs delegated authority and must follow agency procedures. Commercial click-through terms can be problematic — use the SOW and this packet. FAR 13.2 · 13.3.
Hand these URLs
Identifiers
W-9 and SAM representations: sent to the contracting officer on request (email team@). Do not treat this page as a completed Representations and Certifications file — pull live SAM.