Top 5 Talent Acquisition Tools from Move Upstate SC

Amplify your talent recruitment efforts with free resources

With 79 people moving to the region every day, Upstate SC seems to have a magnetic effect that draws people to work and live here.

And Move Upstate SC’s talent attraction efforts showcase the region’s allure, with more than 420,000 unique website visitors since it was launched in 2019.

An initiative of the Upstate SC Alliance, Move Up is a website built specifically for visitors considering relocating to Upstate SC, supported by print and digital materials. Upstate employers and talent acquisition professionals have access to Move Up’s free tools that make talent attraction easier:

1. Cost of Living Calculator

Show your candidates how they can give themselves a raise with our region’s low cost of living.

Our Cost of Living Calculator allows users to compare the cost of living in their current city with the cost of living in the Greenville, Anderson or Spartanburg metros. Users can see how living in Upstate SC compares to areas like Charlotte, Atlanta, Nashville and many more metro areas across the country. Let them see for themselves how much further their salary will go — and how much less they will pay in bills and essential costs — in Upstate SC.

2. Job Board

Looking to hire right now? Job seekers who visit our job board can see more than 6,000 open positions across Upstate SC — including yours! And the best part is: you don’t have to do any extra work to be featured.

Jobs in featured fields populate automatically from your Indeed posting, as long as they match Move Up’s featured job types, include specific keywords, and are less than 30 days old.

Wondering what job types and keywords will pull to our board? Contact us to find out.

3. Video: Why Upstate SC?

Hard to put the Upstate’s incredible quality of life into words? Share a video instead. We invite you to share this video link in your job listings and with individual candidates.

4. Upstarter Profiles

Share how other individuals — and their families — have found a home in the Upstate. Move Up’s Upstarter profiles highlight people who have moved here from New York, Virginia, Houston, Indiana, Puerto Rico, representing a variety of fields.

“My parents raised us with a love of the outdoors, and it’s exciting to build a family where we can share that with our children, too,” says Upstarter Allison Moran, Branch Manager at ECS Limited.

5. Brochures & Print Materials

At job fairs and in-person events, hand job-seekers information about your organization along with a Move Up brochure that welcomes them to our region and shares our website link for more info.

“Move Up’s professional print materials allow us to showcase what life and work are like in Upstate SC, particularly when we’re recruiting outside the region,” says Elba Lizardi, Site Director at BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS) in Seneca. “In the last year, we’ve hired about five people from outside the area.”

These materials are made available, at no charge, for Upstate employers to use. And, they all help to paint the picture of what it means to live and work in Upstate SC, referencing the trove of information on our website.

There, visitors will find facts and stats about the Upstate’s quality of life and low cost of living, and will find an easy starting point for apartment-hunting and things to do in our communities.

Download our Employer Resource Guide to connect with us and start boosting your talent recruitment potential.