RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – After weeks of mixed data on major job boards, local hiring activity appears to be getting back on track, albeit slowly. Our latest count of Triangle-area jobs on national job boards shows a slight uptick from the trends of the past month, mired by economic uncertainties around rising inflation, interest rate increases, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ongoing COVID-19 concerns.

Every Sunday, WRAL TechWire tracks the total number of local positions posted on national job boards, then we compare it to the previous week’s count. The totals have been mixed in recent weeks, registering an especially notable drop two weeks ago.

But the job market saw somewhat of a correction last week, with some cities faring better than others. For example, Adzuna has 1,354 more jobs in Wake County and Raleigh than it did seven days ago, but it shows 285 fewer jobs in Durham. Similarly, LinkedIn shows 1,542 more jobs in Raleigh and Durham than it did a week ago, but there are 315 fewer jobs in Chapel Hill and Johnston County. Indeed.com also shows the net addition of 118 positions in Raleigh, but a drop of -140 in Durham, -158 in Chapel Hill and -10 in Johnston County.

This comes as the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a new set of data showing that North Carolina’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.7% in February, down from January’s revised rate of 3.9%. Comparatively, the state had a 5.4% unemployment rate in February 2021. Overall, the number of people employed in North Carolina rose by 18,085 over the course of last month.

WRAL TechWire’s weekly Jobs Report compiles the latest information from the region’s top job boards, offering a breakdown of how many jobs are posted, which companies are hiring, and what positions are most in-demand. We’ve also included upcoming job fairs, student-centric resources, and a list of Twitter accounts that track local job openings.

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Here’s what’s new since last week’s Jobs Report.  

Local Jobs on National Job Boards

Here is a look at the total number of local jobs posted on national job boards compared to last week, as of Sunday evening.

  • Adzuna:
    • ⇑ Wake County: 45,422 jobs (+1,304 from a week ago)
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 25,692 (+50)
    • ⇓ Durham County: 11,680 (-285)
    • ⇑ Johnston County: 2,980 (+26)
  • Dice.com (using the 5-mile radius filter):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 19,520 (+54)
    • ⇑ Durham: 19,367 (+70)
    • ⇑ Chapel Hill: 19,108 (+87)
  • Glassdoor: ⇓ 40,250 jobs across the Research Triangle Park area (-46)
  • Indeed (5-mile radius filter):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 18,386 (+118), with 3,113 jobs posted in the last seven days
    • ⇓ Durham: 11,225 (-140), with 1,690 jobs posted in the last seven days
    • ⇓ Chapel Hill: 5,200 (-158), with 846 jobs posted in the last seven days
    • ⇓ Johnston County: 931 (-10), with 135 jobs posted in the last seven days
  • InHerSight: Pages upon pages of jobs across the RTP area
  • LinkedIn (using the “exact location” and “0-miles” filters):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 39,625 (+761), with 7,561 jobs posted in the past week
    • ⇑ Durham: 16,236 (+781), with 3,214 jobs posted in the past week
    • ⇓ Chapel Hill: 2,765 (-68), with 385 jobs posted in the past week
    • ⇓ Johnston County: 1,444 (-247), with 280 jobs posted in the past week
  • Remote Tech Jobs: Several remote jobs offered by Triangle-area employers
  • ZipRecruiter (5-mile filter):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 36,337 (+519)
    • ⇓ Durham: 16,433 (-145)
    • ⇓ Chapel Hill: 3,896 (-37)
    • ⇓ Johnston County: 358 (-7)

Startup Job Search Sites

Aside from the boards above, job seekers can also find local startup jobs at SimplyHired (264 startup jobs near Research Triangle Park), LinkedIn (11,602 results in and around Raleigh), Indeed (381 startup jobs in/near RTP) and AngelList (job openings in Raleigh, Durham and across North Carolina).

Here’s a look at local and regional job sites, listed in alphabetical order:

AMA Triangle

AMA Triangle, the fifth-largest chapter in American Marketing Association’s nationwide network, aims to be a go-to resource for all things marketing in the Triangle. The organization provides professional training, free career webinars and a job board offering free resume placement for marketing professionals.

As of Sunday evening, AMA Triangle’s job board shows 99 marketing jobs in Raleigh, 46 in Durham and 30 in Chapel Hill (using the 25-mile radius filter).

Seven local jobs were added to the site over the last week:

  • Advance Auto Parts is growing its team in Raleigh, adding several new job openings. Positions include social media and content marketing intern, associate communications manager, digital marketing intern, senior marketing and ecommerce analyst, and marketing field analyst.
  • CARE Plastic Surgery is hiring a marketing and events coordinator in Cary.
  • Saint Mary’s School seeks a marketing and communications director in Raleigh.

American Underground

Durham-based startup hub American Underground regularly posts job openings on its job board. Job seekers can filter their search by company, location and job function.

As of Sunday evening, the site shows 299 jobs at 51 companies. About two dozen jobs were posted over the last week:

  • Durham wellness startup Auroraflow is looking to hire a launch/marketing intern for the summer of 2022.
  • Durham-based data science firm NoviSci seeks two senior data scientists, an analytics platform product director, a business development director, a clinical operations specialist/senior specialist, a medical science liaison and a project coordinator.
  • Durham-based health tech startup Pattern Health is hiring a remote product manager.
  • Insurtech startup Policygenius posted several remote and Durham-based job openings. At its local office, the company is hiring a senior product analytics data scientist, a junior case management associate, two case management associates (remote and in Durham), two business development representatives (remote and in Durham), a bilingual junior case management associate and a senior associate.
  • Payments software provider Spreedly seeks an HR analytics and compensation analyst in Durham (or remote).
  • The Looma Project, a digital storytelling startup, is looking to add a junior operations coordinator in Raleigh.
  • Wild Earth, a pet food company, seeks a senior graphic designer in Raleigh (or remote – four-month contract).
  • Durham publishing startup Written Word Media is looking to hire a remote operations/marketing intern for the summer of 2022.

Bio Jobs Hub

Last year, WRAL TechWire and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center launched a Bio Jobs Hub platform focused on biopharma manufacturing — one of North Carolina’s largest industries, employing over 26,000 people.

Typical biopharma jobs include process technicians, maintenance and/or instrumentation technicians, quality assurance and quality control associates, process development scientists and process engineers. This industry also offers competitive entry-level salaries, from $42,000 to $60,000.

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Scientists, skilled laborers and recent graduates can use the Bio Jobs Hub resource to find career and training opportunities in their area. Users can search by location, job category/activity and region.

Many biopharma companies are hiring in the Triangle, including large employers like Biogen in Research Triangle Park, bioMérieux in Durham, GSK in Zebulon, Merck & Co. in Durham, Novo Nordisk in Durham and Clayton, Pfizer in Sanford, and others.

Leadership Triangle

Leadership Triangle’s job board is packed with local jobs. The site displays 721 openings at 31 companies as of Sunday evening.

Here’s what’s been posted in the last week:

  • Bank of America seeks a financial solutions advisor trainee in Durham and a wealth management banking specialist and wealth management client associate in Raleigh.
  • Blue Cross NC posted several new job openings in Durham, including senior infrastructure design engineer, principal SQL server DBA, senior business process advisor, transparency team product owner, case manager/health coach, business process advisor, commercial pharmacy operations team leader, senior IT vendor service delivery manager, senior OME risk program project/program manager, UiPath developer, senior government markets program manager, program manager, principal coaching advisor, principal program manager of government markets, solutions coach leader and principal Salesforce developer.
  • Burt’s Bees seeks a plant controller in Morrisville.
  • Capitol Broadcasting Company (WRAL TechWire’s parent company) is looking to add an assistant financial controller in Raleigh and a baseball TV producer, baseball clubhouse attendant and baseball bat person in Durham.
  • Medicago seeks an external manufacturing fill-finish engineer and a quality control biochemistry analyst in Durham.
  • North Carolina Central University posted several positions in Durham, including administrative support associate (two openings), professional nurse, transportation and parking services assistant director, associate comptroller, senior academic advisor, accounting technician, associate professor and assistant professor (both within NCCU’s Department of Language and Literature), assistant director of new student and family programs, student services specialist and student counselor.
  • PNC Bank posted some remote and local job openings. In the Triangle, the bank is looking to hire a teller in Cary and a banking advisor in Raleigh.
  • Self-Help Credit Union added two openings in Durham for an event planning and facilities coordinator and an associate database developer.
  • Truist posted several positions across its Triangle-area offices:
    • Carrboro: Relationship banker
    • Clayton: Universal banker
    • Durham: Insurance employee benefits account executive
    • Oxford: Relationship banker
    • Pittsboro: Relationship banker 
    • Raleigh: Java software engineer (three openings),  risk rating product analyst, RAC lender, relationship banker, senior business analyst and Agile mobile product owner
    • Smithfield: Teller/senior teller
  • William Peace University posted three positions in Raleigh, including assistant/associate professor of exercise and sport science, assistant director of athletics and assistant controller.

NCBiotech

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s extensive jobs board lists open jobs and internships from local life science companies and research organizations. Users can filter by job category, employment type (full-time, part-time and contractor), keywords, postal code and radius. NCBiotech also touts jobs through its Bio Jobs Hub program.

Here is what’s new over the last week:

  • Research associate in upstream process development and immunology research associate at AskBio in Durham
  • Laboratory medical director at Biofidelity in Morrisville
  • Production associate in cell-based therapies at CoImmune in Durham
  • Postdoctoral associate (two openings) at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute in Durham
  • Lab research analyst at the Duke Molecular Physiology Institute in Durham
  • Merck & Co. posted several openings in Durham, including automation engineer, operations manager, associate director of lab technology quality control, lead instrumentation technician, lead maintenance technician, utilities technician, HVAC/refrigeration engineer, senior instrumentation technician, IT quality assurance specialist, maintenance technician, senior maintenance technician, lead purification operations technician, operations manager, quality specialist, senior site learning specialist, quality control specialist, senior learning and development specialist, and associate specialist in quality lab operations.
  • Research associate/senior research associate at Opus Genetics in Durham
  • Director/VP of human resources at Ribometrix in Durham
  • Temporary associate research technician at United Therapeutics in Durham

Note: This list does not include openings posted by recruiting/staffing firms.

NC TECH

The North Carolina Technology Association (NC TECH) has an interactive job board that you can use to find your next career opportunity. Users can search by keyword, location, category, type (full-time or part-time) and experience level.

One new local job was added to the site over the last week:

  • Technology nonprofit MCNC is looking to add a network operations analyst in Durham.

NCWorks

NCWorks, the statewide job search portal run by the North Carolina Department of Commerce, has nearly 100 career centers located across the state. Users can filter NCWorks’ database by keyword, location, occupation group or specific occupations, minimum acceptable salary, education level, job sources and date posted.

North Carolina military veterans, transitioning service members and spouses can find additional resources on NCWorks’ separate veterans portal.

About 1,245 resumes were updated on the site in the past week, as of Sunday evening. NCWorks reports thousands of available positions across the Triangle area.

Top organizations

In Wake County, the top employers with the most job openings on NCWorks are*:

  • Wake County Public School System
  • North Carolina State University
  • WakeMed Health and Hospitals
  • UNC Health Care System
  • University of North Carolina

Here are the top companies/organizations by job openings in Durham County:

  • Duke University
  • Durham Public Schools
  • Duke University Health System
  • Cree Wolfspeed
  • Fidelity Investments

The top employers in Johnston County are:

  • Johnston County Public Schools
  • Johnston Health
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Grifols
  • UNC Health Care System

And here are the top employers in Orange County:

  • UNC Chapel Hill
  • UNC Health Care System
  • Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
  • Orange County Schools
  • Piedmont Health Services

*Note: This data was gathered through NCWorks’ Labor Market Information portal, which aggregates public job listings. NC Commerce confirmed with TechWire that this search pathway has a thorough process to remove duplicate job listings. Check employers’ websites directly for the latest information.

Raleigh Founded

Raleigh Founded, a startup incubator and coworking space, has its own job board. Job seekers can filter results by company, company size or industry.

The site currently lists 186 positions at 30 companies as of Sunday evening. Over the last week, 15 new jobs were posted: 

  • Data and analytics consulting firm Astral Consulting Group seeks an analytics project lead in Raleigh.
  • MedPharm, a contract development and manufacturing organization, posted six openings in Durham: Data quality control associate/data reviewer, topical DMPK department manager/senior manager, associate formulation scientist, analytical scientist, quality control manager and analytical associate scientist.
  • Raleigh-based AI startup Pryon is looking to hire a remote solutions manager.
  • Local coworking organization Raleigh Founded seeks a summer intern.
  • Wearable technology startup TraKid is hiring a senior embedded software engineer (remote or in Durham).
  • Cloud software provider Veeva Systems posted five openings in Raleigh, including senior associate, manager of post-integration partner operations, manager of direct feed partner communication, LIMS implementation consultant and senior product designer. 

Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster

This isn’t a job board per se, but the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster’s list of job search sources is a helpful resource for job seekers in the clean energy sector. The list has links to career opportunities from the organization’s members and partners.

Triangle Region Job Board

Leadership Triangle, Raleigh Founded and American Underground teamed up to create the Triangle Region Job Board, which synthesizes all of the openings posted on the organizations’ job boards. (Those openings are listed under their respective subheadings above.)

As of Sunday evening, the site shows 2,187 jobs at 98 companies. The latest Triangle-area openings (excluding remote jobs) come from the following employers:

  • Astral Consulting Group (Raleigh)
  • Bank of America (Durham and Raleigh)
  • Blue Cross NC (Durham)
  • Burt’s Bees (Morrisville)
  • Capitol Broadcasting Company (Durham and Raleigh)
  • Medicago (Durham)
  • MedPharm (Durham)
  • North Carolina Central University (Durham)
  • Policygenius (Durham)
  • Raleigh Founded (Raleigh)
  • Self-Help Credit Union (Durham)
  • Spreedly (Durham)
  • TraKid (Durham)
  • Truist (multiple locations in the Triangle)
  • Veeva Systems (Raleigh)
  • Wild Earth (Raleigh)
  • William Peace University (Raleigh)

Work in the Triangle

Work in the Triangle, a Wake County Economic Development program, regularly shares new openings through its Twitter feed, @WorkTriangleNC. The program recently launched a job board on its website, with 12,134 active openings as of Sunday evening. Of those, 9,485 are technology jobs, 1,505 are advanced manufacturing positions, 390 are in cleantech and 754 are in life sciences.

Every Tuesday, Work in the Triangle’s #TriangleTuesdays hashtag lists hot jobs in the area. Here’s a recap of last week’s openings (from March 22):

Scroll through the #TriangleTuesdays hashtag on Twitter for more details on the openings.

Openings at Top Triangle Tech Firms

Job openings abound at the Triangle’s leading technology employers. Here’s how many are available as of Sunday evening:

  • IBM: Hundreds of jobs in RTP/Durham
  • Lenovo: 287 jobs in Morrisville
  • Pendo: 50 openings in Raleigh
  • Red Hat: 60 openings in Raleigh; 88 remote openings in North Carolina
  • SAS: 140 openings in Cary

Upcoming Job Fairs/Career Events

Here’s our latest roundup of upcoming job fairs and other resources to help people looking for employment:

Hospitality Hiring Hour: Every Tuesday, 4-5 p.m. @Washington Duke Inn

Durham’s Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club, JB Duke Hotel and The Lodge at Duke Medical Center are on the hunt for top talent in the hospitality industry. Job seekers can attend this weekly event series every Tuesday through May 31 to meet with managers/staff to ask questions and learn about the available job opportunities.

2022 UNC Cleantech Summit Career Fair: March 31, 1-4 p.m. (online)

This virtual career fair will be held in conjunction with the eighth annual UNC Cleantech Summit. (More information here.)

Spring 2022 Life Science Career Fair: April 8, 1-4 p.m. (online)

This virtual career fair provides a space for job seekers to meet with recruiters and representatives from more than 30 companies across biopharmaceuticals, life sciences, medical device firms, contract research organizations, and contract development and manufacturing companies in North Carolina. Participating companies include Fujifilm, GRAIL, Medicago, AskBio, Beam Therapeutics and more.

Spring 2022 Life Science Career Fair

BioNetwork Virtual Career Fair: April 21, 3-6 p.m. (online)

North Carolina BioNetwork will host an online career fair for job seekers in the life science field. Participating employers include Biogen, Grifols, GSK, Merck, Seqirus, Thermo Fisher Scientific and others.

BioNetwork Virtual Career Fair

Other Resources / Student Support

If you’re a student looking for an internship or entry-level position at a local company or organization, your university has resources to help you get started. Quick links below:

For Johnston County job seekers: The newly launched JoCo Careers website helps job seekers find companies hiring in Johnston County. (More TechWire coverage here.)

Twitter Accounts to Follow

Here are some locally run Twitter accounts that regularly share job openings in the Triangle: