RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – The U.S. Department of Labor reported last week that nationwide unemployment has now hit the lowest point since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020. Around 498,000 Americans filed unemployment claims in the last week of April, down by 92,000 from the previous week. North Carolina saw new claims drop by about 3,440 in the same period.

But that doesn’t mean the pandemic recession is over. North Carolina is still tens of thousands of jobs short of where the state was in March 2020.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ newly released April jobs report shows a significant decline in hiring. According to the report, U.S. businesses added 266,000 new jobs in April, a notable drop from March’s revised total of 770,000. April’s unemployment rate remains at 6.1%, a tiny change from 6% in March.

Meanwhile, the latest jobs report from the NC Department of Commerce shows that North Carolina businesses added 11,338 jobs in March — bringing this year’s total to 44,472 new jobs to date.

The jobs are coming — recent announcements from Apple, Amazon and others make it clear that the job market in the Triangle is in growth mode — but the economic rebound varies widely by industry and geography.

The Fayetteville area had the highest unemployment rate in March at 6.4 percent, followed by Rocky Mount at 6.3 percent. In contrast, Durham/Chapel Hill had the month’s lowest unemployment rate at 3.8 percent, followed by the Raleigh at 3.9 percent.

Since January 2020, WRAL News research shows just 118 jobs created in Cumberland County, but more than 6,000 created or announced in Wake.

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WRAL TechWire is tracking the Triangle’s job trends as the region continues its economic recovery. Our 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 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 the job boards since last week’s Jobs Report:

National Job Boards

National job boards show thousands of opportunities in the Triangle:

  • Dice.com (five-mile radius filter): 11,548 jobs in Raleigh, 11,367 in Durham and 11,151 in Chapel Hill
  • Glassdoor: 44,378 jobs across the Triangle area
  • Indeed (using the “exact location” filter): 15,711 jobs in Raleigh, 8,179 in Durham and 2,718 in Chapel Hill
  • LinkedIn (using the “exact location” filter): 41,682 in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, including 17,796 jobs in Raleigh, 9,901 in Durham and 1,877 in Chapel Hill
  • Manpower: 16 jobs in Raleigh, seven in Durham and five in Chapel Hill
  • ZipRecruiter (five-mile filter): More than 26,537 jobs in Raleigh, 12,756 in Durham and 3,872 in Chapel Hill

Startup Job Search Sites

Aside from the boards above, job seekers can also find local startup jobs at SimplyHired (259 startup jobs near Research Triangle Park), LinkedIn (1,229 results in and around Raleigh), Indeed (271 startup jobs in/near RTP), and AngelList (job openings in Raleigh, Durham and across North Carolina).

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 over 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.

AMA Triangle’s job board currently shows 73 marketing jobs in Raleigh, 35 results in Durham and 18 results in Chapel Hill (with the 25-mile radius filter).

Two new jobs were added to the site since last week’s roundup:

  • Insurance firm Chubb Insurance is hiring an assistant vice president of marketing in Raleigh.
  • Local tech startup ArchiveSocial is looking to add an email marketing manager to its team in Durham.

Here’s a review of new jobs posted in the last few weeks:

  • The Triangle Global Health Consortium is hiring an outreach communications specialist and analyst for biomedical translational science programs.
  • Pharma giant Merck & Co. seeks to add two associate directors of digital marketing quantitative science to its Triangle team.
  • Crossrope, a fitness tech company, is hiring an email marketing specialist 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).

While there were no new jobs added to the site last week, here’s a recap of April postings:

  • E-commerce startup FeedStation is hiring a client success manager, a data analyst, a C# developer and an operations assistant in Durham.
  • Fintech firm Securrency Transfers is hiring a .NET developer and a Flutter engineer (remote or in-person).

Bio Jobs Hub

Earlier this 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.

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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 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.

Since May 3, several new jobs were added to NCBiotech’s board, including:

  • Senior scientist specializing in protein and genetic engineering at Mucommune in Durham
  • Research scientist, research technician and postdoctoral associate at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute in Durham
  • Senior director of quality assurance at Medicago in Durham
  • RNA biology scientist and project manager at Ribometrix in Durham
  • Quality assurance auditor at the IR-4 Project in Raleigh
  • Cell biologist intern at Blue Ridge Bantam in Durham
  • Group leader/senior scientist, principal scientist in pathology, research associate scientist in biochemistry and analytical support at Asklepios BioPharmaceuticals in Durham
  • Histotechnologist at Foundation Medicine in Morrisville
  • Microbiology technician at Corning Pharmaceutical Technologies in Durham
  • Frankel Staffing Partners, a recruiting firm, seeks a principal/senior scientist specializing in analytical chemistry and formulations for its client, a specialty pharmaceutical firm in the RTP area.
  • Frankel Staffing Partners is looking for a director of biostatistics for its client, a biopharmaceutical firm based in North Carolina.
  • Frankel Staffing seeks a director of regulatory affairs for its client, a fast-growing biopharma company based in RTP.
  • Process Technician at Redbud Labs in RTP
  • NCBiotech’s Veterans Outreach Program posted jobs for warehouse operations and maintenance interns for Seqirus’s Holly Springs location. The program is also looking for bioprocess technicians and biopharma warehouse operations interns at Pfizer’s facility in Sanford.
  • Senior research scientist at LigaTrap Technologies in Durham
  • Manager of regulatory affairs at Shattuck Labs in Durham
  • Grant writing specialist at Eva Garland Consulting in Raleigh
  • Data analyst, development specialist, CMC regulatory affairs director, medical affairs/clinical development director, project manager, research associate, scientist and translational medicine research technician at Locus Biosciences in Morrisville
  • Quality specialist at Alcami in Morrisville

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.

A few jobs were added since last week’s roundup:

  • Corning Pharmaceutical Technologies, which manufactures pharmaceutical tubing materials, is hiring a process technician at its Durham facility. In late-April, the company also posted another opening for a microbiology technician in Durham.
  • Raleigh-based Capitol Broadcasting Company (WRAL TechWire’s parent company) is hiring a senior full stack developer.
  • Narrative Science is hiring a remote senior software engineer. Though the company is based in Chicago, the new hire can opt to work remotely.

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 NCWorks website contains a COVID-19 job board that 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.

NCWorks reports thousands of available positions. More than 4,152 people added or updated their resumes at the site in the past week, and more than 300 new jobs were posted on Sunday alone.

Here are the Wake County-based employers with the most job openings, as of May 9:

  • Wake County Public School System (2,420 jobs)
  • Wake Med Health and Hospitals (1,055)
  • UNC Health Care System (1,033)
  • Pharmaceutical Research Associates International (535)
  • UNC Rockingham Health Care (514)
  • NC State University (459)
  • EY (443)
  • Deloitte (380)
  • Facebook (312)
  • IQVIA (254)
  • Amazon (237)
  • INC Research (230)
  • McDonald’s Corporation (221)
  • The Home Depot (205)
  • Wells Fargo (197)
  • Lenovo U.S. (191)
  • Accenture (189)
  • Lenovo (184)
  • PruittHealth (174)
  • Advance Auto Parts (170)
  • Splunk (167)
  • ICF International (164)
  • CVS Health (155)
  • Harris Teeter (155)
  • North Carolina State University (155)

Raleigh Founded

Raleigh Founded, a startup incubator and coworking space, launched a jobs board and research page earlier this year. Job seekers can filter results by company, company size or industry.

Raleigh Founded’s job board currently lists 150 positions at 26 companies.

Here’s what’s new since last week:

  • Raleigh Founded is hiring a summer fellow to assist with administrative, customer service and operations functions.
  • Veeva Systems, a cloud software provider, is hiring for several remote positions: Senior project manager, senior consultant in clinical process development, senior consultant in clinical operations, and two customer success managers. The company is also growing its Raleigh office, adding jobs for four senior software engineers, a senior product manager, a product manager, a DevOps engineer and a clinical data scientist.
  • MedPharm, a product design and development firm in Durham, is hiring a senior scientist specializing in formulation development.
  • Raleigh-based startup Pendo seeks a professional services strategy consultant, an account manager and a corporate account executive.
  • Edtech startup LearnPlatform is adding a marketing coordinator to its team 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.

Every Tuesday, Work in the Triangle’s #TriangleTuesdays hashtag lists dozens of hot jobs. Posts from last Tuesday (May 4) included openings from Seqirus, the Triangle J Council of Governments, the NC Department of Administration, the NC Division of Workforce Solutions, UNC Health, the City of Raleigh, Wake County, RDU Airport, Duke Energy, PNC, Duke Raleigh Hospital, RENCI, BB&T, Wells Fargo, Lenovo, MetLife, SAS, Martin Marietta, NC State University’s Office of Research Commercialization, Carolina Housing at UNC Chapel Hill, Red Hat, Wake Med, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC, the Research Triangle Foundation, Fifth Third Bank, First National Bank, RTI International, Citrix and CreditSuisse. Scroll through the #TriangleTuesdays hashtag on Twitter for details on the openings.

Upcoming Job Events and Program Application Deadlines

Growing IT Talent: It’s Everyone’s Business: May 19, 8:30-9:30 a.m. (online)

The Capital Area Workforce Development Board is hosting a webinar for non-tech companies to learn about recruiting, hiring and retaining talent in the information technology field. Register here.

Life Sciences/Biopharma Hiring Event: May 19, 9:45 a.m. – 3 p.m. (online)

NCBiotech’s Veterans Outreach Program and North Carolina for Military Employment are running a virtual hiring event open to all veterans, transitioning service members and guard/reserve, as well as military spouses. Job seekers will be able to meet face-to-face with hiring managers and recruiters. Register here.

Application Deadline: Betsy Y. Justus NC TECH Founders Scholarship: May 21

Established in memory of the founding CEO of the North Carolina Technology Association (NC TECH), the Betsy Y. Justus NC TECH Founders Scholarship supports two young women as they enter academic and career paths in technology or engineering. Two selected students will receive $4,000 and a Lenovo computer. Apply here.

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:

Twitter Accounts to Follow

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

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