North Carolina

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Alamance county chart
60%
of goals attained
Alexander
Alleghany
Anson
Ashe county chart
53%
of goals attained
Avery
Beaufort
Bertie
Bladen
Brunswick county chart
67%
of goals attained
Buncombe county chart
87%
of goals attained
Burke
Cabarrus county chart
89%
of goals attained
Caldwell
Camden
Carteret
Caswell
Catawba county chart
100%
of goals attained
Chatham
Cherokee county chart
57%
of goals attained
Chowan
Clay county chart
70%
of goals attained
Cleveland
Columbus county chart
98%
of goals attained
Craven
Cumberland
Currituck
Dare
Davidson
Davie
Duplin
Durham
Edgecombe
Forsyth county chart
89%
of goals attained
Franklin
Gaston
Gates
Graham county chart
56%
of goals attained
Granville
Greene
Guilford
Halifax
Harnett
Haywood county chart
59%
of goals attained
Henderson
Hertford
Hoke
Hyde
Iredell
Jackson county chart
48%
of goals attained
Johnston
Jones
Lee
Lenoir
Lincoln
Macon county chart
56%
of goals attained
Madison county chart
76%
of goals attained
Martin
McDowell
Mecklenburg county chart
70%
of goals attained
Mitchell
Montgomery
Moore
Nash
New Hanover county chart
69%
of goals attained
Northampton
Onslow
Orange
Pamlico
Pasquotank county chart
85%
of goals attained
Pender county chart
81%
of goals attained
Perquimans
Person
Pitt
Polk
Randolph
Richmond
Robeson
Rockingham
Rowan county chart
96%
of goals attained
Rutherford
Sampson
Scotland
Stanly
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Stokes
Surry
Swain county chart
78%
of goals attained
Transylvania
Tyrrell
Union
Vance
Wake county chart
93%
of goals attained
Warren
Washington
Watauga
Wayne
Wilkes
Wilson
Yadkin
Yancey
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Certified
County
Jul '19 Aug '19 Sep '19 Oct '19 Nov '19 Dec '19 Jul '19 Aug '19 Sep '19 Oct '19 Nov '19 Dec '19 4983 3749 3762 3764 3788 3813 3819

Bronze

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134 149 164 92 433 234

Silver

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155 261 193 199 473 321

Gold

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96 151 110 117 296 189

Platinum

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60 125 77 59 152 146

Number Of Monthly ACT WorkKeys NCRC Earned
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North Carolina Work Ready Communities

One of North Carolina’s greatest strengths is our educated and engaged workforce. But in today’s competitive global marketplace, where North Carolina competes for top talent with economies around the world, we must do more to strengthen our workforce and fill the talent pipeline. Workforce development has been a priority in North Carolina for many years. A talent pipeline with the necessary foundational and technical skills for success is a primary goal for education, business and workforce professionals.

The NC Work Ready Communities initiative is a partnership between the NC Work Ready Certified Communities State team and the ACT Work Ready Communities team to support economic development throughout the state by providing counties with a framework to validate that they have a skilled workforce ready to fill current and future jobs. Counties applying for certification form collaborative partnerships with local chambers of commerce, local workforce development boards, public schools, community colleges and business leaders. Together they create the framework for achieving certification goals, including increasing high school graduation rates, the number of ACT National Career Readiness Certificates™ (ACT NCRC®) and employer engagement.

The NC Work Ready Communities state team consists of members from the NC Chamber Foundation, the NC Community Colleges System Office, the NC Department of Public Instruction (CTE Division), the NC Department of Commerce (Division of Workforce Solutions), regional economic development professionals, and local community college leaders. The NC Department of Public Instruction (CTE Division) serves at the final certifying body to designate a county as a Certified Work Ready Community.

High school seniors in public schools who have a CTE concentration (four technical credits in a Career Cluster) take the ACT WorkKeys® assessments needed to earn an ACT NCRC®.

Benefits of the program for business include competitive cost models through lower employee turnover, decreased training time and costs, and related efficiencies that enhance North Carolina's global competitiveness. Increasing support of the ACT NCRC is a key strategy; the goal is to have eight of the 10 largest employers in each participating county recognize or recommend the workplace credential.

For more information on NC Work Ready Communities or to begin an application, please visit the website.

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This website reports the ACT® WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificates earned at the county and state level and the progress being made by those participating states and counties in the ACT Work Ready Community initiative. This site only represents data stored in the ACT RegiSTAR™ system, a web-based reporting and management tool for ACT WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificates.


State and national ACT WorkKeys NCRC data runs from January 2006 through December 31, 2019 , while county-level data is starting from January 2012. State job profile data runs from January 2007 through December 31, 2019 , while national job profile data reaches back to 1993. Again, please note that county-level ACT WorkKeys NCRC data collection began in January 2012 for WorkKeys Internet Version, and in July 2012 for pencil and paper assessments. State and national certificate totals include historical data prior to 2012.


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