RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – If you hope to land a job at a startup in the Triangle, be forewarned: Your chances continue to drop.

The job market may be changing week-by-week, but in the startup ecosystem, there’s a clear trendline: a decreasing number of job openings, especially on the LinkedIn platform. For the fifth consecutive week, the total aggregate number of jobs in the startup economy of the Triangle has fallen.

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The data show that there are now just 16,949 startup job postings based in the Triangle’s entrepreneurial economy, though there may be overlapping postings across the 15 job boards tracked by WRAL TechWire.