- Typically work 40 hours per week and make less than $10,000 a year
- Good work ethic
- Trained or trainable for better paying positions
- First to respond to more rewarding job opportunities
- Haven't found work for their training, education, and/or expectations
- No longer actively seeking employment
- Approximately 70% female
- Following relocation may be unable to find work comparable to what they performed previously
- Others are second wage earners and/or homemakers
- Generally highly educated
- 5,000+ employees are from outside the county
- 13,500+ county residents go outside the county for employment.
- 40% percent of 18-year-olds enter directly into the work force
- Some of the most productive employees in the country.
- Graduates from Education Business Partnership, Tech Prep, or the School-to-Work
- People who have been laid-off
- People who have been terminated
- Almost 50,000 attend universities or colleges in the Upstate
- Potential interns and co-op partners, as well as, part-time and/or seasonal employees
- Low-cost alternative for quality white-collar support positions
- Co-op students are prime candidates as potential employees
College Graduates
- 8,000+ Upstate college and university graduates per year
- One of the highest concentrations of MBAs in the nation
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