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Spartanburg, South Carolina
Spartanburg County is a certified Work Ready Community that is actively engaged in maintaining their status.
Showing: Jan 1, 2012 to Apr 30, 2025
Goals updated only for participating counties
Status History:
Certified: Jun 2015
Maintained 1: Apr 2021
Maintained 2: Jan 2022
Hover over the chart to see how they received their points.
Progress Towards Goals
Spartanburg is actively engaged in maintaining their status as a Work Ready Community. To do so, they must earn 5 points that prove their ongoing commitment to developing a thriving economy for employers and employees.
Traditional goals 3 Points
Maximum of 4 points possible
Current Goal - 1 points
Emerging Goal - 1 points
Transitioning Goal - 1 points
Optional goals 1 Points
Maximum of 3 points possible
Improved Certificates - 1 points
Spartanburg County in the News
ACT WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificate [NCRC]
Workforce | Total NCRC |
Bronze NCRC |
Silver NCRC |
Gold NCRC |
Platinum NCRC |
NCRC Plus |
|
Emerging | High School | 10008 | 2589 | 5139 | 2056 | 224 | 321 |
College | 92 | 12 | 47 | 29 | + | 16 | |
Current | Private | 1335 | 317 | 737 | 243 | 38 | 328 |
Public | 786 | 243 | 463 | 70 | 10 | 147 | |
Transitioning | Adult Education | 1084 | 273 | 669 | 136 | 6 | 30 |
Unemployed | 3554 | 1069 | 1936 | 475 | 74 | 565 | |
Recent Veteran | 42 | + | 12 | 6 | 0 | + | |
Workforce category not identified | 1466 | 217 | 257 | 157 | 102 | 0 | |
Totals | 17613 | 4723 | 9260 | 3172 | 458 | 1411 |
Workforce | Total NCRC |
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Emerging | High School | 10008 | 2589 | 5139 | 2056 | 224 | 321 |
College | 92 | 12 | 47 | 29 | + | 16 | |
Current | Private | 1335 | 317 | 737 | 243 | 38 | 328 |
Public | 786 | 243 | 463 | 70 | 10 | 147 | |
Transitioning | Adult Education | 1084 | 273 | 669 | 136 | 6 | 30 |
Unemployed | 3554 | 1069 | 1936 | 475 | 74 | 565 | |
Recent Veteran | 42 | + | 12 | 6 | 0 | + | |
Workforce category not identified | 1466 | 217 | 257 | 157 | 102 | 0 | |
Totals | 17613 | 4723 | 9260 | 3172 | 458 | 1411 |
The table above is a detailed breakdown of the same ACT WorkKeys NCRC data presented in the upper right box on this page and represents ACT WorkKeys NCRCs earned or improved throughout the community. All ACT WorkKeys NCRC data is updated monthly.
+ Value less than 4
ACT WorkKeys NCRCs Earned
Showing: Jan 1, 2012 to Apr 30, 2025
Workforce | Goals | Actual NCRC |
---|---|---|
✓ Emerging | 2712 | 10437 |
✓
Current |
295 | 2596 |
✓ Transitioning | 3751 | 5258 |
Workforce category not identified | 733 | 733 |
Workforce | Total |
---|---|
Employers Supporting | 173 |
Improved ACT NCRC
To/From | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Platinum |
---|---|---|---|---|
Not Earned | 95 | 27 | 1 | 0 |
Bronze | 183 | 4 | 0 | |
Silver | 33 | 0 | ||
Gold | 5 |
Employers in Spartanburg County recognize or recommend the ACT WorkKeys NCRC
- Express Employment
- AFL
- Cooper Standard Automotive
- Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce
- Sloan Construction
- Rhodia
- American Staffing
- Greer Police Department
- Home Helpers
- New York Life - Mark & Amanda Hopper
- Image Collision Repair
- Lear Corporation
- Express Employment Services
- SC Works Upstate
- Spartanburg County
- Watson's Furniture
- ACHIEVE Program
- American Credit Acceptance
- Aerotek
- Zimmer America Corp
- SC Ports Authority
- AACSC LLC
- Gregory Electric Company Inc.
- Laurens County School District 55
- Upstate Fatherhood Coalition
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