RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Local hiring activity appears to be picking up again after a brief downturn: Our latest count of Triangle-area openings on national job boards breaks from last month’s drop in hiring activity amid uncertainties around rising inflation, the Russia-Ukraine conflict and interest rate hikes. The rebound began in late-March and has since continued over the last seven days.

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.

Adzuna, for example, has 10,940 more jobs in Wake County and Durham County than it did seven days ago.

ZipRecruiter also shows 5,537 more positions in Raleigh and +833 in Durham compared to the same time last week.

These figures are a significant improvement from the patterns of recent weeks.

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However, some job boards show a decline.

Dice.com has 401 fewer positions across Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, while LinkedIn shows a drop of -6,455 in Raleigh.

Even though North Carolina’s unemployment rate has steadily declined over the last year and now sits at 3.7%, the demand for talent is still incredibly high in the Triangle.

According to labor market data from NCWorks, the Raleigh metropolitan statistical area (MSA) currently has about 0.63 candidates available per job opening, with 50,067 positions and only 31,412 job seekers. The Durham-Chapel Hill MSA has 0.84 candidates per job opening, equating to 25,583 positions for 21,493 job seekers.

How does the Triangle compare to the nation? CNN reported that the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey noted last week that “for every job-seeking American, there were just below 1.8 positions available, matching the high from December.”

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.

Below, we’ll review what’s new since last week’s Jobs Report.

Local Jobs on National Job Boards

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

  • Adzuna:
    • ⇑ Wake County: 54,957 jobs (+9,535 from a week ago)
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 32,889 (+7,197)
    • ⇑ Durham County: 13,085 (+1,405)
    • ⇑ Johnston County: 3,025 (+45)
  • Dice.com (using the 5-mile radius filter):
    • ⇓ Raleigh: 19,395 (-125)
    • ⇓ Durham: 19,233 (-134)
    • ⇓ Chapel Hill: 18,966 (-142)
  • Glassdoor: ⇑ 40,485 jobs across the Research Triangle Park area (+235)
  • Indeed (5-mile radius filter):
    • ⇓ Raleigh: 18,325 (-61), with 3,371 jobs posted in the last seven days
    • ⇓ Durham: 11,015 (-210), with 1,778 jobs posted in the last seven days
    • ⇓ Chapel Hill: 5,110 (-90), with 1,073 jobs posted in the last seven days
    • ⇓ Johnston County: 915 (-16), with 205 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: 33,170 (-6,455), with 10,493 jobs posted in the past week
    • ⇑ Durham: 16,781 (+545), with 3,727 jobs posted in the past week
    • ⇓ Chapel Hill: 2,706 (-59), with 565 jobs posted in the past week
    • ⇑ Johnston County: 1,583 (+139), with 459 jobs posted in the past week
  • Remote Tech Jobs: Several remote jobs offered by Triangle-area employers
  • ZipRecruiter (5-mile filter):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 41,874 (+5,537)
    • ⇑ Durham: 17,266 (+833)
    • ⇑ Chapel Hill: 3,945 (+49)
    • ⇑ Johnston County: 367 (+9)

Startup Job Search Sites

Aside from the boards above, job seekers can also find local startup jobs at SimplyHired (267 startup jobs near Research Triangle Park), LinkedIn (11,510 results in and around Raleigh), Indeed (344 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 afternoon, AMA Triangle’s job board shows 91 marketing jobs in Raleigh, 50 in Durham and 30 in Chapel Hill (using the 25-mile radius filter).

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

  • Advance Auto Parts is growing its workforce in Raleigh, posting an opening for a field communications specialist.
  • North Carolina Bar Association seeks two marketing specialists in Cary.
  • WakeEd Partnership is hiring a director of marketing and communications 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 afternoon, the site shows 283 jobs at 53 companies. Over a dozen jobs were posted over the last week:

  • Elevate Labs, a brain training app developer, posted three remote job openings for a copywriter, a content marketer and a head of finance.
  • California-based insurtech startup Noyo posted two remote positions: Distributed practices lead and partner marketing manager.
  • Insurtech startup Policygenius posted six remote and Durham-based job openings. At its local office, the company is hiring a senior platform engineering manager, a senior email marketing manager and a workplace operations coordinator. It also posted a few remote positions, including performance marketing manager, media relations manager and senior email marketing manager.
  • Payments software provider Spreedly seeks a director of infrastructure (Durham or remote).
  • The Looma Project, a digital storytelling startup, is looking to add a GM/VP of CPG sales and a GM/VP of adult beverage sales in Durham.
  • Hospitality startup Viagem seeks a VP of real estate growth in Durham.

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 761 openings at 31 companies as of Sunday afternoon.

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

  • Bank of America seeks a financial center manager in Raleigh.
  • Blue Cross NC posted several new job openings in Durham, including reconciliation analyst, strategic client consultant, cost of care senior financial analyst, vendor service delivery manager, business systems associate, cost of care senior analyst, operations coordinator, senior group market offer strategic advisor, senior strategic advisor of digital member engagement, senior financial and operational auditor, senior portfolio analyst (two openings), senior manager of claims, recovery and medical review, administrative assistant, scrum master, account manager, appeals associate, principle business systems analyst, assistant counsel, principal solution architect, Salesforce team leader, senior strategy and market offer manager, strategic healthcare advisor, experience health program manager and OpenShift/Kubernetes senior infrastructure engineer.
  • Capitol Broadcasting Company (WRAL TechWire’s parent company) posted four openings in Raleigh: Multimedia journalist, IT security engineer, TV news production assistant and TV news producer.
  • Medicago seeks a facility technician and a manufacturing technician in Durham.
  • North Carolina Central University posted several positions in Durham, including administrative support associate/university operator, student services specialist (five openings), business officer/pre-award and OSRP assistant director, university program specialist, assistant professor of mass communication-media studies, university bands director, tech law fellow, property security officer, associate director of annual giving, associate vice chancellor of facilities management, executive director of student health, research assistant, assistant director for student leadership, cataloging and metadata librarian, associate vice chancellor of campus enterprises, property security officer, executive assistant, academic program manager, university events office manager, technical support specialist, building environmental services manager, public safety supervisor, public safety officer, media relations and internal communications coordinator, vehicle/equipment repair technician, building environmental tech (three openings), building environmental services supervisor, facility maintenance supervisor and engineer project manager.
  • PNC Bank is looking to hire a teller in Durham. It also posted several remote positions, including business experience planning and administration advisor, senior quantitative analyst/model analyst, quantitative manager, software developer associate, implementation associate, strategy and planning specialist, senior retail lending loan support analyst, software manager and software developer.
  • Self-Help Credit Union is hiring a universal banker in Durham.
  • William Peace University posted three positions in Raleigh: 2022 graduate summer intern (in the Center for Student Success), public safety officer and director of enrollment operations.

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:

  • Alcami is hiring at its manufacturing center in Morrisville: Openings include maintenance technician, associate analytical scientist, senior quality specialist, supply chain manager, senior manufacturing technician, manufacturing technician, metrologist, senior computer systems validation specialist, data review specialist, lab operations supervisor and senior environmental monitoring tech. And in Durham, the company is hiring a project specialist, a business development manager, a solid state scientist, a bioassay associate scientist, a bioassay scientist, a senior analytical scientist, an EHS manager, a senior quality scientist, a project manager, a lab operations manager, a bids and contracts technical evaluations specialist, and an analytical scientist.
  • Research scientist at Altis Biosystems in Durham
  • In-vivo research associate, facilities project engineer, document control manager, contracts manager, IT program manager, senior lab systems engineer and CMC project manager at AskBio in Durham.
  • Research laboratory technician at Biomason in Durham
  • Scientist in bioassay-analytical development at BridgeBio Gene Therapy in Raleigh
  • Regulatory affairs manager at CoImmune in Durham
  • GMP quality assurance associate, GMP project/program manager and GMP bioprocess development scientist at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute in Durham
  • Research technician (two openings) and lab research analyst at Duke University Orthopaedic Surgery in Durham
  • Drug discovery intern at IMMvention Therapeutix in RTP
  • Process development research technician at Isolere Bio in Durham
  • Preclinical research associate/technician and research associate at Locus Biosciences in Morrisville
  • Merck & Co. posted several openings in Durham, including quality associate specialist, senior manufacturing operations technician, engineering maintenance and utilities lead technician, associate operations technician, energy center technician, associate production technician, senior financial planning and analysis specialist, senior technician, senior study manager R&I, engineering specialist, quality control specialist, senior engineering technician, senior operations technician, manufacturing automation specialist, senior manufacturing automation engineer, incoming quality specialist, senior quality control specialist, manufacturing IT agile lead, operations lead tech, senior technician, maintenance technician and senior maintenance technician.
  • Executive assistant at the North Carolina Biosciences Organization (NCBIO)
  • Director of manufacturing sciences and technology, cell therapy scientist and gene therapy scientist at Precision BioSciences in Durham
  • Tech services specialist at Tecan in Morrisville

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.

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

  • BlueRecruit, a job platform for tradespeople, is looking to add a part-time React developer in Raleigh (or remote).
  • Life sciences trade association NCBIO is hiring an executive assistant in RTP.

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 1,064 resumes were updated on the site in the past week, as of Sunday afternoon. 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
  • Fidelity Investments
  • Cree Wolfspeed

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
  • goPuff

*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 182 positions at 30 companies as of Sunday afternoon. Five new jobs were posted over the last week:

  • Raleigh software startup Pendo seeks a video producer, a senior sales systems change manager, a lead user researcher and a contract administrator.
  • Cloud software provider Veeva Systems is looking to hire a sales development representative in Raleigh.

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 afternoon, the site shows 2,197 jobs at 98 companies. The latest Triangle-area openings (excluding remote jobs) come from the following employers:

  • ArchiveSocial (Durham)
  • Blue Cross NC (Durham)
  • Capitol Broadcasting Company (Raleigh)
  • Medicago (Durham)
  • North Carolina Central University (Durham)
  • Pendo (Raleigh)
  • Policygenius (Durham)
  • Self-Help Credit Union (Durham)
  • Spreedly (Durham)
  • Veeva Systems (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 12,030 active openings as of Sunday afternoon. Of those, 9,609 are technology jobs, 1,402 are advanced manufacturing positions, 345 are in cleantech and 674 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 29):

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 afternoon:

  • Lenovo: 294 jobs in Morrisville
  • SAS: 142 openings in Cary
  • Red Hat: 72 openings in Raleigh; 83 remote openings in North Carolina
  • Pendo: 46 openings in Raleigh
  • IBM: 30 jobs in RTP; 300+ in Durham County, per NCWorks

Job Openings Submitted by Local Companies

Below is a list of employer-submitted job openings. If you’d like to submit your job openings for this segment, reach out to us here.

Communications software firm Bandwidth currently has 117 open positions at its Raleigh headquarters, 46 of which are software development jobs. Read more and apply here.

Rho, a contract research organization in Research Triangle Park, is hiring for several positions, with some offering $10,000 sign-on bonuses:

Chapel Hill-based edtech company Terra Dotta plans to boost its headcount by 25% in 2022. Its current job openings include:

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.

State of North Carolina Virtual Entry-Level Career Expo: April 6, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. (online)

The NC Office of State Human Resources (OSHR), the Higher Education to North Carolina Government Careers program and the Volcker Alliance’s Government-to-University Initiative are hosting an online event where job seekers can learn about all the positions available at state government agencies, the UNC System Office and more. Read more and register here.

State of North Carolina Virtual Entry-Level Career Expo

NCWorks Skilled Trades Hiring Event: April 6, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. @NCWorks Career Center in Durham

This in-person job fair will connect job seekers in skilled trades professions with hiring managers from a wide range of companies, from Pfizer to American Red Cross to the JB Duke Hotel. More details here.

NCWorks Skilled Trades Hiring Event

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: