Looking for work? Triangle jobs market heats up despite recession fears

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Bank of America is warning that the US economy may soon start losing 175,000 jobs a month in a looming recession, and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon rattled Wall Street with his recession comments on Monday. But in the Triangle hiring is picking back up, according to listings on major jobs boards.

The number of postings increasing on 13 of the 20 job board searches that are tracked for our weekly WRAL TechWire Jobs Report surged over the past week – up from four the previous week.

The total number of job postings tracked grew by nearly 10,000 openings, or 2.77%.

And month-over-month, the total number of openings, in the aggregate, have gained as well, by 1.26% or 4,577 job openings.

Even with economic uncertainty, companies are still competing for talent in the Triangle and across the state.

“While the traditional definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of decline in GDP (which we’ve had), and inflation has also remained elevated, other factors defy typical recessionary trends,” said Brooks Raiford, CEO of NC TECH, the North Carolina Technology Association.

'“North Carolina’s metrics in these factors mirror the country’s: unemployment is low (even lower in the tech sector), consumer spending/confidence remains strong, and job creation has beaten expectations for months, all of which combine to underpin continued economic strength,” Raiford added.

Note: 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. Here's more from WRAL TechWire on the latest changes in the labor markets in our local economy. Below, we’ve gathered the latest upcoming job fairs, student-centric resources, and a list of Twitter accounts that track local job openings. Here's what's new since the last WRAL TechWire Jobs Report.

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The data on Triangle jobs

Each week, WRAL TechWire tracks the total number of Triangle-area positions posted on major job websites, across 20 different searches. Here is the latest data, as of Monday afternoon. We use the shorthand abbreviation "MoM" for month-over-month and "YTD" for year-to-date in our report. This week's report also includes tracking the month-over-month gains as a percentage increase or decrease in the total number of postings measured by WRAL TechWire.

Adzuna:
- Wake County: 65,069 (⇑+5,932 or 10.03% MoM; ⇑+22,538 YTD)
  - Raleigh: 51,245 (⇑+3,824 or 8.06% MoM; ⇑+27,301 YTD)
- Durham County: 19,595 (⇑+2,623 or 15.45% MoM; ⇑+9,841 YTD)
- Johnston County: 4,237 (⇑+328 or 8.39% MoM; ⇑+1,008 YTD)*
Dice.com (using the 5-mile radius filter):
- Raleigh: 17,462 (⇓-87 or -0.50% MoM; ⇑+2,091 YTD)
- Durham: 16,702 (⇓-162 or -0.96% MoM; ⇑+1,522 YTD)
- Chapel Hill: 16,470 (⇓-61 or -0.37% MoM; ⇑+1,481YTD)
Glassdoor: 39,924 jobs across the Research Triangle Park area (⇓-1,286 or -3.17% MoM; ⇑+4,446 YTD)
Indeed:
- Raleigh: 21,453 (⇓-477 or -2.18% MoM; ⇑+5,045 YTD)
- Durham: 11,875 (⇓-1,028 or -7,97% MoM; ⇑+1,838 YTD)
- Chapel Hill: 3,302 (⇓-112 or -3.28% MoM; ⇓-586 YTD)
- Johnston County: 3,589 (⇓-46 or -1.27% MoM; ⇑+2,612 YTD)
LinkedIn (using the “exact location” and "0-miles" filters):
- Raleigh: 26,119 (⇓-742 or -2.80% MoM; ⇓-746 YTD)
- Durham: 12,056 (⇑+680 or 5.98% MoM; ⇓-2,431 YTD)
- Chapel Hill: 2,758 (⇓-203 or -6.86% MoM; ⇑+328 YTD)
- Johnston County: 1,971 (⇑+171 or 9.50% MoM; ⇑+425 YTD)
ZipRecruiter (5-mile filter):
- Raleigh: 38,114 (⇓-1,455 or -3.68% MoM; ⇑+4,892 YTD)
- Durham: 14,884 (⇓-3,301 or -18.15% MoM; ⇑+26 YTD)
- Chapel Hill: 925 (⇓-30 or -3.14% MoM; ⇓-2,719 YTD)
- Johnston County: 426 (⇑+19 or 4.67% MoM; ⇑+47 YTD)*

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Methodology on measuring Triangle job market

Editor's Notes: The month-over-month totals are compared to our August 30 report, and the year-to-date totals compare to our Jan. 3 report. **We've also updated the methodology for which we track Johnston County job openings on LinkedIn, twice now, in July and in August, as the platform updated how jobs display, and in today's report return to month-over-month comparisons. *And, the year-to-date data for Johnston County tracks from Jan. 31, 2022, when we began to track job postings in the county for the WRAL TechWire Jobs Report.

Weekly Startup Jobs Report

Aside from the boards above, job seekers can also find local startup positions at these sites:

SimplyHired (173 startup jobs near Research Triangle Park, up 9 postings from last week but down 13 from last month)
LinkedIn (9,672 job openings that include "startup" in the Triangle region, down 80 jobs from last week and down 704 jobs from a month ago)
Indeed (225 startup jobs in/near RTP, up five job openings from last week, but down 21 from last month)
AngelList (32 job openings in Raleigh, 12 in Durham and 71 total across North Carolina, down 14, two, and 18 job openings from a week ago, respectively)
Durham-based job site InHerSight also lists jobs at local startups among other job postings (147 this week, up nine openings from a week ago.)

Here's a look at local and regional job sites, listed in alphabetical order, below.

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 Monday, the AMA Triangle job board shows 97 roles close to Raleigh (down from 104 roles posted last week), and another 66 roles, some of which overlap, close to Durham (down from 84 roles open last week).

American Underground

Durham-based startup hub American Underground (Editor's Note: American Underground is owned by Capitol Broadcasting Company, the parent company of WRAL TechWire) regularly posts job openings on its job board. Job seekers can filter their search by company, location and job function. As of Monday, the site shows 144 jobs at 53 companies (that's down six openings, or 4%, since last week and down nearly 9% from a month ago).

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. 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.

Leadership Triangle

Leadership Triangle's job board is full of job opportunities, including from small, mid-size, and large employers. The site lists 1,709 job openings at 30 companies (up from 1,612 last week).

NCBiotech

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s extensive jobs board lists open jobs and internships from local life science companies and research organizations. The organization recently updated the user interface with a fresh design. Job seekers can filter their search results by position title, job function and location. NCBiotech also touts jobs through its Bio Jobs Hub program.

The site lists 194 job openings as of Monday, up from 165 last week and 148 the week prior. This job board is up 63 jobs, slightly more than 48%, since a month ago. (Editor's 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.

Raleigh Founded

Raleigh Founded, a startup incubator and coworking space that celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, has its own job board. Job seekers can filter results by company, company size, industry and job function. The site currently lists 61 positions as of Monday.

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.

As of Monday, the site shows 2,985 job openings. That's up 63 openings from last week and up 239 openings from a month ago.

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 launched a job board on its website earlier this year, with 5,823 job openings on Monday. Last week, there were 6,518 openings and two weeks ago there were 7,164 openings. Postings are down 2,320 from a month ago, or a decrease of about 28.5%. Still, of the current job openings, 4,264 are technology jobs (down from 4,807 roles open last week, 5,415 job openings two weeks ago, and down from more than 7,100 openings earlier this year), 874 are advanced manufacturing positions (down from 952 openings a week ago, when North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper proclaimed the week North Carolina Manufacturing Week), 318 are in cleantech (down from 355 open roles last week) and 366 are in life sciences roles (down from 403 openings from last week).

Every Tuesday, Work in the Triangle’s #TriangleTuesdays hashtag lists hot jobs in the area. Scroll through the #TriangleTuesdays hashtag on Twitter today for more details on the latest openings.

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Where are the jobs in the Triangle?

Amazon: 81 job openings in the Triangle (down from 91 a week ago), though some roles can be done remotely, according to the company's career page. Amazon is closing multiple North Carolina facilities, though a company spokesperson told WRAL TechWire that Amazon is not laying off any workers. Workers at an Amazon facility in Garner continue efforts to unionize including speaking with other Amazon workers in the state. The company is also hiring for more than 1,000 roles in North Carolina
Apple (corporate roles): 61 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page, down eight roles from a week ago. The company announced the iPhone 14 and other products at an event produced last month.
Bandwidth: 13 job openings in Raleigh, according to the company's career page. The company will require its employees to work in-person five days per week, WRAL TechWire reported this month.
BASF*: 32 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page
BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina*: 44 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page
BD*: 19 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page
Cisco: 223 job openings in Research Triangle Park, according to the company's career page
Citrix: 26 job openings in Raleigh, according to the company's career page
Credit Suisse*: 61 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page, down 12 openings from last week and 52 openings from two weeks ago. Stock prices plunged in early October.
Duke Energy*: 12 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page
Eaton*: 77 job openings in Raleigh, according to the company's career page. Earlier this year, the company announced plans to hire about 170 workers who will be based in the company's revamped Raleigh office. There are 10 more openings this week compared to last.
Eli Lilly: 30 job openings in Research Triangle Park, according to the company's career page
Fidelity Investments: 581 job openings in Durham, according to the company's career page, up 17 openings from a week ago
FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies: 42 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page
Google: 214 job openings in Durham, according to the company's career page. The company is making cuts in some areas of the company but is expected to continue to hire for the Durham engineering hub, WRAL TechWire reported earlier this year.
Grifols*: 128 job openings in North Carolina, including in Durham and Clayton, according to the company's career page, up 10 roles from a week ago
GlaxoSmithKline*: 118 job openings in Durham, according to the company's career page
IBM: 2 job opening in RTP, according to the company's career page. There's been no change in recent weeks, though the company said it would continue to hire in August.
IQVIA: 389 job openings in RTP, according to the company's career page (down from 404 the prior week and down from 420 two weeks ago)
Kyndryl: 72 job openings in RTP, according to the company's career page
Labcorp: 272 job openings in Burlington, N.C., according to the company's career page
Lenovo: 284 job openings in Morrisville, according to the company's career page, down 26 job openings from a week ago.
MetLife: 128 job openings in Cary, according to the company's career page, down 6 openings from a week ago. MetLife told WRAL TechWire recently that it planned to hire 400 workers by New Year's Day and will host an employer informational session through NC TECH today.
Merck*: 19 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page
Microsoft: 21 job openings in Raleigh, according to the company's career page
NetApp: 112 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page, down 20 openings from last week, 30 openings from two weeks ago, and 81 job openings from a month ago.
Novo Nordisk: 172 jobs in the Triangle, according to the company's career page. And even more jobs could be coming to a Novo Nordisk location in Johnston County, WRAL TechWire reported earlier this month. (Some previous weekly reports underreported the total number of available company jobs in the Triangle, due to an error from WRAL TechWire.)
Novartis: 4 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page. The company is closing a Wilson plant.
Pendo: 8 job openings in Raleigh, according to the company's career page. The technology unicorn did announce there would be Pendo layoffs earlier this year totaling less than 5% of the company's workforce, and less than two dozen employees in Raleigh affected.
Pfizer*: 92 job openings in North Carolina, according to the company's career page, up six roles from a week ago
Red Hat: 96 job openings in Raleigh, according to the company's career page. Red Hat is owned by IBM.
RTI International: 115 job openings in Durham, according to the company's career page, up five openings from last week
SAS: 133 job openings in Cary, according to the company's career page, down 24 openings from last week. Some of the available roles are remote-based positions.
Science 37*: 6 job openings that could be based in Raleigh, though some other roles are remote positions
Sensus (Xylem)*: 50 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page
Spectrum*: 40 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page
Syneos Health*: 4 job openings in Raleigh, according to the company's career page
Toshiba Global Commerce: 65 openings in Durham, according to the company's career page
Wolfspeed: 239 job openings in Durham, according to the company's career page. The company announced a $5 billion investment that is expected to bring some 1,800 jobs to the region, as reported earlier this year by WRAL TechWire.
Worldwide Clinical Trials*: 57 job openings in North Carolina, according to the company's careers page

Editor's Note: An asterisk indicates that WRAL TechWire began tracking jobs at the company less than one month ago.

Upcoming hiring events

Fall 2022 Western NC Career Expo: Oct. 11 (WNC Agricultural Center). Western North Carolina businesses and organizations are ready to promote career opportunities for job seekers in advanced manufacturing, technology, health care, tourism, professional services and other high-growth industries.
NC State Data Science Career Expo: Oct. 17 (James B. Hunt Jr. Library). The Data Science Academy at NC State University invites students, alumni and employers to the Data Science Career Expo on Monday, Oct. 17.
Carolina Startup Connect: Nov. 9 (Carolina Union). This isn’t your average college career fair. It’s designed specifically for startup companies to meet with entrepreneurial-minded students from UNC-Chapel Hill and Carolina Central Community College who have high-demand skills and a passion for working at startups.