Good news for job seekers: National jobs boards show 40,000+ open positions in Triangle

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – People in search of work or a career change have a growing number of options to pursue as the Triangle economy continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Two major job boards show more than 40,000 open positions and other sites have thousands more.

And NCWorks has information about thousands of jobs, adding more than 120 on Sunday alone. In fact, some 20 companies have 100 or more spots to fill.

Last week, news headlines were filled with promising announcements related to the Triangle’s job market. As the jobless rate continues to decline across North Carolina, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies announced it would create hundreds of high-paying jobs at its upcoming drug manufacturing facility in Holly Springs, and Google will add another 1,000 jobs at a new cloud computing hub in Durham.

High-tech job openings in NC soar above 33,000 – Raleigh demand surges 36.5%

From startups to multinationals, companies are hiring at a hot pace, according to sites and data reviewed for WRAL TechWire’s exclusive jobs roundup that is posted each Monday.

Here’s a look at all the action:

National Job Boards

National job boards show thousands of opportunities in the Triangle:

Glassdoor: More than 40,150 jobs in the Triangle
Indeed: 14,027 jobs in Raleigh, 7,286 in Durham and 2,300 in Chapel Hill
LinkedIn: 40,851 in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, including 18,389 jobs in Raleigh, 8,930 in Durham, 1,696 in Chapel Hill
Manpower: 9 jobs in Raleigh and 5 jobs in Durham and Chapel Hill
ZipRecruiter: 8,167 jobs in Raleigh, 3,992 in Durham and 382 in Chapel Hill

Startup Job Search Sites

Aside from the boards above, job seekers can also find local startup jobs at SimplyHired (241 jobs are available near Research Triangle Park), LinkedIn (1,034 results in and around Raleigh), Indeed (251 startup jobs in RTP), and AngelList (job openings in Raleigh, Durham and across North Carolina).

NCWorks

NCWorks is a statewide job search portal run by the North Carolina Department of Commerce, which 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. NCWorks also has a mobile app on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

The site’s COVID-19 job board lists companies hiring to fill immediate technical and healthcare needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

NEW JOBS:

NCWorks reports thousands of available positions with 113 new jobs posted on Sunday, March 21 alone.

More than 3,000 people added or updated their resumes at the site.

Wake County-based employers with the most job openings include:

Wake County Public School System (1,507 jobs)
WakeMed Health and Hospitals (548)
NC State University (474)
Pharmaceutical Research Associates International (423)
UNC Rockingham Health Care (393)
UNC Health Care System (390)
Lenovo (299)
Credit Suisse (225)
INC Research (219)
Gilead Sciences (172)
Advance Auto Parts (140)
Allscripts (140)
PRA Health Sciences (134)
Food Lion (131)
Harris Teeter (129)
CVS Health (128)
City of Raleigh (124)
Duke University Health System (118)
IQVIA (108)
Wells Fargo (107)
McDonald’s Corporation (103)
PruittHealth (102)
First Citizens Bank (101)

Jobs news, training update

WRAL TechWire’s weekly jobs column keeps readers posted on local job and internship opportunities. Every Monday, we round up the latest information from the region’s top job boards, offering a breakdown of how many jobs are posted, which companies are hiring and for what positions. We’ve also included upcoming job fairs, student-centric resources and a list of Twitter accounts that track local job openings.

Let’s highlight what’s new on local job boards since last week’s roundup.

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—serving more than 470 members. AMA Triangle provides professional training, free career webinars and a job board offering free resume placement for marketing professionals. Every month, it hosts a free “Transitions Mastermind” program for job seekers and those seeking advice on career improvement.

NEW JOBS:

AMA Triangle’s job board currently features 77 marketing jobs within a 100-mile radius of Raleigh, 43 results within a 100-mile radius of Durham, and 50 results within a 100-mile radius of Chapel Hill.

Here are the local positions that were added to the site over the last week:

Merck & Co., Inc. is hiring executives to lead healthcare provider marketing for its oncology business units in the Triangle.
PPD is hiring a marketing manager (home or office-based) in Morrisville.
John Rex Endowment is seeking a 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 skills, position level (c-suite, co-founder, entry-level, mid-level or senior-level), job type (full-time, part-time or intern), job classification (1099 or W2), and work location (on-site, flexible or remote).

NEW JOBS:

Since last week’s roundup, one new listing was added to AU’s job board: Kinston-based private jet company FlyExclusive is hiring a development lead to build a dev group in Durham.

Here are some other listings that have been posted in 2021 so far:

Durham-based digital advertising startup Adwerx is hiring a strategic account manager, a digital marketing specialist and a mid-market account executive.
Pattern Health, a digital health startup, is currently seeking an inside sales representative, a senior DevOps engineer, a security and compliance manager, a director of marketing and a business development director.
Book publishing startup Written Word Media is hiring a customer service and content specialist.
Web design firm Pathos Ethos is hiring in several positions, including product manager, contract WordPress developer, backend developer, front-end developer, mobile developer and director of engineering.
Digital storytelling startup Looma is on the hunt for a lead designer to fill a role as its first internal design hire.

American Underground-based CureMint, a startup with a procurement software platform for dental organizations, is also looking to add new talent to its team. It has openings for several positions (read more and apply here):

Senior software engineer
Mid-level software engineer
Senior product manager
Mid-level product manager
Marketing specialist

Bio Jobs Hub

WRAL TechWire and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center recently 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.

$2.3 billion in biomanufacturing expansions is driving demand for more workers across NC

Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center’s response to COVID-19 helps keep NCSU a safer place

NEW JOBS:

Dozens of 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 many more.

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.

NEW JOBS:

Over the past week (since March 15), 33 new jobs were added to NCBiotech’s board, including:

Quality specialist, senior manufacturing technician, chemist, laboratory trainer and two summer interns at Alcami in Morrisville
Research technician, high containment facility manager, scientific program manager, postdoctoral associate and GMP project manager at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute in Durham
Research analyst/technician and post-doc/research associate/scientist at Collective BioTherapy in Durham
Marketing director at 410 Medical in Durham
Clinical quality assurance associate/senior associate at Precision BioSciences in Durham
Senior associate scientist at BridgeBio Gene Therapy in Raleigh
Fermentation research associate at DMC Biotechnologies in Durham
Laboratory medical director, director of operations and associate director of product development at Biofidelity in RTP
Content marketing and communications specialist at Biocair in Raleigh
Molecular technologists at Foundation Medicine in Morrisville
Medical writer at SpringWorks Therapeutics in Durham
Director of quality systems at Beam Therapeutics in RTP
Frankel Staffing Partners is looking for a process development/chemical engineer and a pharma manufacturing project manager for two clients in RTP

NC TECH

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

NEW JOBS:

One new job was added to NC TECH’s job board since last week’s roundup: SAP SuccessFactors business analyst at Retail Business Services in North Carolina.

Here’s a recap of what’s been posted over the past month:

Financial systems administrator at Cypress Creek Renewables, a solar energy company. The position will be based in Durham.
.NET application developer at Western Carolina University, with a remote work option available. For the telework option, candidates must be located within an eight-hour drive of WCU’s campus in Cullowhee.
Associate account manager at publishing software provider BlueMatrix
Senior software engineer at adtech startup Kevel (formerly Adzerk)
Several tech positions at Deutsche Bank’s office in Cary
Project engineer at RTP-based supply chain software provider Optricity Corporation

Raleigh Founded

Raleigh Founded, a startup incubator and coworking space, launched a jobs board and research page in January. You can filter your search by company, company size and industry.

NEW JOBS:

Raleigh Founded’s job board currently lists 149 positions at 25 companies (as of March 14). Here’s what’s new since last week:

Raleigh startup Pendo posted several jobs, including two senior sales operations business analysts, senior director of revenue marketing, associate brand designer, senior strategic financial analyst, scale customer success manager and backend engineer.
Raleigh-based edtech startup LearnPlatform is hiring a senior backend engineer, a research associate, a QA engineer, a full-stack engineer, a cloud infrastructure engineer, a vice president of people and culture, and a product marketing manager.
Veeva Systems, a cloud software company, is hiring a DevOps engineer, two clinical operations consultants and a customer success manager in Raleigh.
Rezdy, a booking and distribution platform, is hiring a customer care team lead 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.

Work in the Triangle

Work in the Triangle, a Wake County Economic Development program, shares new openings daily through its Twitter feed, @WorkTriangleNC.

NEW JOBS:

The organization runs a weekly #TriangleTuesdays Hot Jobs alert. Last week’s posts featured jobs from Fifth Third Bank, RTI, Citrix, Blue Cross NC, Red Hat, UNC Health, Greene Resources, NC State, First Citizens Bank, Capitol Broadcasting (WRAL TechWire’s parent company), SAS, MetLife, Lenovo, NC State University, Fred Smith Company, CreditSuisse, BB&T, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Wake County, Duke Energy, City of Raleigh and Seqirus. Find more by scrolling through the #TriangleTuesdays hashtag on Twitter.

Upcoming Job Fairs

Virtual Career Fair for Individuals with Disabilities: March 23, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. (online)

North Carolina’s Office of State Human Resources is hosting a virtual career fair to help individuals with disabilities find their next job or internship in the public sector. Job seekers can chat with state agency employers via text chat sessions. Registration is free for job seekers.

NC State Poole College of Management Small Business Internship Fair: March 26, 1-4 p.m. (online)

This virtual event will connect business students to small businesses, startups and nonprofit organizations seeking talent for summer internships and projects.

Wake Tech Virtual Business & IT Career Fair: March 31, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. (online)

This virtual career fair will connect Wake Tech students with local companies hiring business and information technology professionals. NOTE: This event is specifically for Wake Tech associates and college transfer students/alumni pursuing business and IT careers.

NC TECH’s Virtual Tech Job Expo: April 21, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (online)

At NC TECH’s virtual Tech Job Expo, employers can connect and network with professionals seeking jobs and internships in tech. Tickets are free for candidates and job seekers.

Job Resources for Local Students

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:

Duke University: Student Affairs Career Center
Durham Technical Community College: College Central Network
NC Central University: Eagle Career Network
NC State University: Career Development Center, Career Help During COVID-19 and Jobs at NCSU
UNC Chapel Hill: University Career Resources and Careers at UNC Chapel Hill
Wake Technical Community College: College Central Network and Career and Employment Resources

Student Internship/Career Program Deadlines

Triangle Women in STEM Launch Award: March 26

Triangle Women in STEM’s new Launch Scholarship program will provide a one-time cash award of $2,500 to help a graduating college woman transition into her career at an RTP-based company or research institution.