Shelby, Tennessee
Shelby 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 2023
Maintained 1: Mar 2025
Hover over the chart to see how they received their points.
Progress Towards Goals
Shelby 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 1 Points
Maximum of 4 points possible
Current Goal - 1 points
Optional goals 0 Points
Maximum of 3 points possible
ACT WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificate [NCRC]
Workforce | Total NCRC |
Bronze NCRC |
Silver NCRC |
Gold NCRC |
Platinum NCRC |
NCRC Plus |
|
Emerging | High School | 457 | 177 | 187 | 56 | 37 | 0 |
College | 206 | 47 | 112 | 37 | 10 | 0 | |
Current | Private | 1351 | 330 | 754 | 220 | 47 | 0 |
Public | 871 | 275 | 487 | 95 | 14 | 0 | |
Transitioning | Adult Education | 19 | 8 | 7 | + | + | 0 |
Unemployed | 2085 | 627 | 1143 | 275 | 40 | + | |
Recent Veteran | 24 | + | 10 | + | 0 | 0 | |
Workforce category not identified | 102 | 15 | 26 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
Totals | 5052 | 1480 | 2726 | 695 | 149 | + |
Workforce | Total NCRC |
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Emerging | High School | 457 | 177 | 187 | 56 | 37 | 0 |
College | 206 | 47 | 112 | 37 | 10 | 0 | |
Current | Private | 1351 | 330 | 754 | 220 | 47 | 0 |
Public | 871 | 275 | 487 | 95 | 14 | 0 | |
Transitioning | Adult Education | 19 | 8 | 7 | + | + | 0 |
Unemployed | 2085 | 627 | 1143 | 275 | 40 | + | |
Recent Veteran | 24 | + | 10 | + | 0 | 0 | |
Workforce category not identified | 102 | 15 | 26 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
Totals | 5052 | 1480 | 2726 | 695 | 149 | + |
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 | 1051 | 663 |
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Current |
466 | 2222 |
Transitioning | 2777 | 2117 |
Workforce category not identified | 51 | 51 |
Workforce | Total |
---|---|
Employers Supporting | 235 |
Improved ACT NCRC
To/From | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Platinum |
---|---|---|---|---|
Not Earned | 73 | 16 | 0 | 1 |
Bronze | 94 | 2 | 0 | |
Silver | 12 | 1 | ||
Gold | 4 |
Employers in Shelby County recognize or recommend the ACT WorkKeys NCRC
- Smith & Nephew
Y&W Technologies
- Riviana Foods
Blues City Brewery LLC
TruckPro LLC
Titan Transfer Inc
Self+Tucker Architects
- Nickson General Contractors
Mid-South Electrical Contractors
- Aquaserv
- Ledbetter Packing Co
Moore Tech
Greater Memphis Alliance for a
Competitive WorkforceTennessee Department of Economic and
Community Development- Graduate Memphis
- Reaves Law Firm PLLC
Case Management, Incorporated
- Divine Intervention Center
- iRise LLC
Assemblers Inc.
- Family Safety Center
- Crystal Steel
WM Barr
- In Love Memphis
- Mt. Vernon Baptist Church - Westwood
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