Need to Recruit Skilled Employee’s in Western NC?

	Having Difficulty Finding Competent and Skilled Employees? WorkPath Can Help! The Path to Success Starts with Hiring the Right Employees Now, more than ever, the time and resources employers dedicate to finding qualified workers with applicable skills is at a premium. Turnover in key positions can cost precious time, missed deadlines and can eat into profit margins. Interviewing and hiring employees who have successfully progressed through the WorkPath system and earned their CRC (Career Readiness Certificate) allows you as an employer to: • Evaluate job applicant skills • Simplify the hiring process • Profile skill requirements for specific jobs • Evaluate the skills of current employees for promotions • Retrain existing employees • Determine individual and organization skill needs • Reduce turnover • Provide focused education and training needed to meet both individual and organization goals What is WorkPath? WorkPath is an educational resource system in Wilkes, Ashe and Alleghany counties that helps employees gain the applicable skills needed for today’s jobs. Employees are trained, tested and ultimately can earn a CRC (Career Readiness Certificate) in key areas including: • Applied Mathematics • Reading for Information • Locating Information				“As an employer, I feel very confident hiring a candidate with a CRC. A high school diploma, GED or other degree may not be as good an indicator as a CRC that an employee has the basic skills needed for most entry level jobs.” Jim Halsey, Director of Human Resources Louisiana Pacific, Roaring River, NC



					What is a CRC? A CRC (Career Readiness Certificate) is a key step in the WorkPath system. It is an assessment-based credential that gives employers, “a uniform measure of determining whether a potential employee has the necessary literacy, numeric and problem-solving skills to be job ready.” A CRC is based on established WorkKeys assessment tests. WorkKeys is a comprehensive skills assessment tool recognized by thousands of companies in the United States, and by state and federal agencies. A CRC is available to all adults upon successful completion of the assessment step of the WorkPath program.

	The Career Readiness Certificate Levels

	A Qualified Workforce for Future Economic Development The skill level of the available workforce is a deciding factor for an executive considering moving a business to North Carolina, expanding an existing company, or just trying to sustain operations in a struggling economy. CRC testing addresses the Economic Development Community's concerns about the gap that exists between those skills required on the job and those actually possessed by potential employees. The WorkPath system and a CRC are designed to meet the needs of employers and job seekers, encouraging growth and expansion in the region’s economy.



					“The community or region wins in the fact that a well-documented labor pool is a great economic development tool. A community or region that can demonstrate a documented labor shed that meets the requirements of prospective new or expanding industries has an inherent advantage in the labor component of the location decision matrix.” J. Scott Moncrief, Plant Manager Martin Marietta Composites, Sparta, NC

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