Top 20 Fast Growing, High Paying, Hi-Tech Jobs in Wake Forest NC Research Triangle

Wake Forest is not only home of Wake Forest University, but interesting because of a number of additional aspects. As the fastest-growing city in North Carolina, Wake Forest is located at the edge of the North Carolina Research Triangle, a major center of technological development in the Southeast United States. This location resulted in 2007's Forbes,com recognition of Wake Forest as the 20th fastest-growing suburb in America.

Wake Forest, 101 years old in 2010, is about 10 miles northeast of Raleigh, the State Capital and one of three city anchors for the Research Triangle. According to BusinessWeek, the number of Wake Forest households increased at least 118% from 2000 – 2010, meaning that they more than doubled in 10 years.

The Triangle area is largely responsible for this growth, drawing talented professions and their families to the area and attracting even more business enterprises. While some communities of the Triangle experienced partial economic decline for a period in the later 2000s, they recovered and became fast-growing leaders in technologies, with additional communities joining them.

The NC Research Triangle region is anchored by Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. The larger 13-county region offers recognized effective K-12 school systems, a social and employment climate that encourages a growing population diversity in the Triangle, and a large healthcare system attached to innovative new heath-and-medical products and services developed in partnership among universities, government agencies, and private sector businesses.

Videos to the right show part of the range of interests targeted for development in the Triangle by the Research Triangle Institute alone. Dozens of other companies work on hundreds of projects in the region, creating jobs as well as technological advancements and new products.

In mid-March 2010, over 19,000 job listing were gathered across all Internet sources for the Wake Forest area, up to 25 miles from city center. Besides Wake Forest, these jobs were located in Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Research Triangle Park, Morrisville, and Clayton.

Entries in bold text are also top job listers.

1. Nortel Networks - Largest employer in North Carolina.
2. Duke University & Medical Center
3. University of North Carolina
4. IBM
5. GlaxoSmithKline
6. Cisco Systems
7. SAS Institute
8. RTI International
9. Durham Public Schools
10. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of NC
11. Verizon
12. PPD
13. Teleflex Medical
14. Research Triangle Institute
15. Career Partners

Other Large Employers

Education, Healthcare, and Hi-Tech

1. North Carolina State University
2. WakeMed Health & Hospitals - includes rehabilitation hospitals and other kinds fo health facilities.
3. Rex Healthcare
4. UNC School of Medicine
5. Progress Energy

Few metropolitan areas in the US can offer as many as a Top 25 Major Employers that are listing jobs and hiring. The positions available in 2010 and likely to increase through 2020 are largely centered around IT, Retail and Wholesale Sales, Healthcare and Financial Services.

Financial Services in an interesting entry in Triangle jobs and business, one involved with business and personal finances and especially the continuing local business start up and expansion. Some of these businesses are related to the health and medical sectors, such as bio-regeneration; i.e., growing new organs and systems through the almost-magic pig-derived ECM or extracellular matrix. Produced from a pig's bladder, this powder, when placed near human tissue, will duplicate it. Television broadcasts have shown a senior citizen with a new esophagus, and research is under way to attempt to duplicate bone and other critical tissues. At the same time, patients own stem cells can be used to treat certain conditions, while the Research Triangle Institute studies chromosomal birth defects with an eye toward prevention.

The business momentum gained in the Triangle Region of 13 counties helps to make Wake Forrest a location with accessibility to 1000s of current jobs as new fields of work and new job titles emerge each year to increase the employment opportunities. Universities in the area help to protect the Triangle from from economic downturn through constant attraction of research and development partnerships in the area as well as new students and faculty.

1. Software Developers
2. Store Managers
3. Physical Therapists
4. Registered Nurse (Licensed RNs and BSNs)
5. Licensed Practical Nurses (Licensed LPNs)
6. Project Managers - IT
7. Software Engineers
8. Salespeople
9. Administrative Assistants
10. Crew Members – Fast food and casual dining.
11. Grocery salespeople, in-store
12. Account Executive
13. Sales Specialists
14. Sales Representatives
15. Accounting Supervisors
16. Account Executives and Managers
17. Sales Managers
18. Financial Advisors
19. Healthcare Support jobs
20. Cashiers

Additional job titles in demand:

1. Specialty Software Sales Reps
2. General Managers
3. Occupational Therapists
4. Support Analysts
5. Business and Technical Applications

1. Campbell University
2. Central Carolina Community College
3. Duke University - Durham
4. Durham Technical Community College
5. Meredith Colleges system
6. North Carolina Central University
7. North Carolina State University
8. Peace College
9. Pfeiffer University
10. Piedmont Community College
11. School of Communication Arts
12. Shaw University
13. St. Augustine's College
14. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

15. Strayer Unviersity - strayer.edu‎ - Campuses around the US.

16. University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill

17. UNC School of Medicine
18. Vance-Granville Community College
19. Wake Forest University (WFU)
20. WFU School of Medicine - WFU Baptist Medical Center
21. Wake Technical Community College

Status as a college town and ownership of a vital Downtown are two elements that result in continued city growth and prosperity. The related March 2010 newsletter announced 6 new businesses openings, including a dance club. art studios, a body art shop and others. Special events occur around the year and dedicated activities after 5:00 PM help draw people to the active central city.

Transportation

Wake Forest is near the Raleigh-Durham International Airport and highways I-85, I-40, and US-1. Amtrak trains are accessible in Raleigh NC. Passenger buses run via Triangle Transit Authority (TTA) and the city bus systems of Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh (Capital Area Transit). TTA's WFL Wake Forest Loop (free) and WFX Wake Forest-Raleigh Express are especially useful routes.