NC Career Readiness Certification (CRC) Employers are increasingly concerned with ensuring that both potential and incumbent employees have the skills necessary to thrive in today’s workplace. More than 80 percent of all jobs are projected to require skills beyond those earned in high school by 2010.
What is it? A portable credential that also promotes career development and skill attainment for the individual and confirms to employers that the individual possesses basic workplace skills. Reading, Applied Math, and Locating Information, which are target skills because research has shown that they are required in 85% of jobs. The NC CRC is based upon WorkKeys, a nationally recognized, skills assessment tool developed by ACT Inc. The WorkKeys system determines the skills needed for success in the workplace.
What Else Should I Know? This initiative is supported by the NC Community College System and the Governor’s Office. Also there are several project partners that are influential in this movement: Guilford County JobLink Career Centers, Guilford County Workforce Development Board and the NC Employment Security Commission.
For the Individual Are you lost in a crowd of applicants? The NC CRC sets you apart whether you are looking for a better job or advancing in your current job.
Benefits • Increase your employability for more jobs • Identifies skills you have to get the job you want • Places a credential on your application/resume • Connects you to a database for job opportunities • Improves your opportunity for career change and advancement
Stand Out…Get Your CRC
NC CRC allows you to be competitive and marketable in the job market - at little or no cost.
Greensboro Job Link
303 N. Raleigh Street, Greensboro, NC
High Point JobLink
607 Idol Street, High Point, NC
GTCC Jamestown Campus 601 High Point Road, Jamestown, NC
www.gtcc.edu
For more information, contact the CRC Coordinator for Guilford County at (336) 334-4822 ext. 53087.
crc@gtcc.edu www.crcnc.org
GUILFORD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE