Jefferson, Arkansas
Jefferson County is a certified Work Ready Community that is actively engaged in maintaining their status.
Showing: Jan 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2024
Goals updated only for participating counties
Status History:
Certified: Jan 2022
Maintained 1: Mar 2024
Hover over the chart to see how they received their points.
Progress Towards Goals
Jefferson 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 0 Points
Maximum of 3 points possible
Economic Regions Including Jefferson
ACT WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificate [NCRC]
Workforce | Total NCRC |
Bronze NCRC |
Silver NCRC |
Gold NCRC |
Platinum NCRC |
|
Emerging | High School | 514 | 225 | 213 | 53 | 23 |
College | 79 | 13 | 48 | 14 | + | |
Current | Private | 545 | 102 | 304 | 107 | 32 |
Public | 435 | 127 | 261 | 38 | 9 | |
Transitioning | Adult Education | 12 | 6 | 5 | + | 0 |
Unemployed | 1497 | 394 | 844 | 212 | 47 | |
Recent Veteran | 8 | 0 | + | + | 0 | |
Workforce category not identified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Totals | 3086 | 867 | 1676 | 428 | 115 |
Workforce | Total NCRC |
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Emerging | High School | 514 | 225 | 213 | 53 | 23 |
College | 79 | 13 | 48 | 14 | + | |
Current | Private | 545 | 102 | 304 | 107 | 32 |
Public | 435 | 127 | 261 | 38 | 9 | |
Transitioning | Adult Education | 12 | 6 | 5 | + | 0 |
Unemployed | 1497 | 394 | 844 | 212 | 47 | |
Recent Veteran | 8 | 0 | + | + | 0 | |
Workforce category not identified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Totals | 3086 | 867 | 1676 | 428 | 115 |
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 Jun 30, 2024
Workforce | Goals | Actual NCRC |
---|---|---|
✓ Emerging | 561 | 593 |
✓
Current |
623 | 980 |
✓ Transitioning | 1459 | 1513 |
Workforce category not identified | 0 | 0 |
Workforce | Goals | Actual |
---|---|---|
Employers Supporting | 34 | 0 |
Improved ACT NCRC
To/From | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Platinum |
---|---|---|---|---|
Not Earned | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Bronze | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Silver | 1 | 0 | ||
Gold | 0 |
Employers in Jefferson County recognize or recommend the ACT WorkKeys NCRC
- Strong Manufacturing Co. Inc.
Planters Cotton Oil Mill
Kevin Bonnette Insurance Agency Inc.
WIN'S Inc.
- Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Library
System - Liberty Utilities
B3 Properties Inc.
- Custom Hydraulics & Machinery Inc.
- Relyance Bank N.A.
- GFPB Inc.
- Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Co
- White Hall School District
- Eco. Dev. Alliance for Jefferson County
The Paper Tigers Inc.
Evergreen Packaging
Down River Cryogenics LLC
- TRAFFORD REAL ESTATE
Pine Bluff Regional Chamber of Commerce
Pine Bluff Cotton Belt Federal Credit
Union- Tyson Foods Inc
- White Hall High School
- L.L. Owen Elementary School
- Edgewood Elementary School
- Dallas County Court House
- Dennia Beard - State Farm Insurance
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