Greater Raleigh Chamber Of Commerce's "Work In The Triangle" Initiative Launches "Triangle Tuesdays"

RALEIGH, NC, May 16, 2013

The Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce (http://www.raleighchamber.org), in partnership with Wake County Economic Development (WCED) (http://www.raleigh-wake.org/home), the Chamber's Competitive EDGE4 program, and Work in the Triangle (http://www.workinthetriangle.com), will launch its #TriangleTuesdays initiative on Tuesday, May 14. Designed to connect job seekers and employers throughout the Triangle, every Tuesday Work in the Triangle will post 10 of the hottest job openings with Triangle companies on its web portal and promote these openings via its social media channels on Twitter @WorkTriangleNC, Facebook and Linkedin. The weekly promotion allows followers and subscribers to Work in the Triangle's RSS feed access to exclusive employment opportunities that may not be posted anywhere else.

The campaign will share job openings from businesses across a wide range of industries in the Triangle region, and will feature positions with both large and small employers. The Work in the Triangle initiative has already been working with a number of local employers to help them with their recruitment efforts including Citrix Sharefile, DB Global Technologies, Fidelity and Red Hat, among others that are expanding rapidly in the market. The campaign will use the hashtag #TriangleTuesdays to share the latest and greatest job openings in an effort to promote the growing number of employment opportunities throughout the Triangle, and continue Work in the Triangle's ongoing efforts to match the area's top talent with top employers.

In addition to following #TriangleTuesdays on Twitter, job seekers can subscribe to the Work in the Triangle RSS feed and receive updates with the most recent job opportunities. Work in the Triangle will also post all shared job positions on its website landing page at http://www.workinthetriangle.com/work/triangletuesdays.

Employers have the opportunity to partake in the fun by tweeting their job openings at @WorkTriangleNC or sharing on Work in the Triangle's LinkedIn and Facebook pages. Additionally, employers and businesses can send details about available positions to info@WorkintheTriangle.com. Each week, the Work in the Triangle team will select 10 job opportunities to highlight.

The #TriangleTuesdays campaign directly follows the one-year anniversary of the "Work in the Triangle, Smarter From Any Angle" campaign and further positions the initiative as the Triangle's go-to resource for area employment opportunities, actively engaged with local companies and recruiters to promote, and ultimately fill, open positions by attracting new talent. As the campaign has worked to raise awareness for the region and its numerous opportunities, the campaign's website portal and other digital communication channels have received high levels of engagement, reaching 12,000 unique website visitors, more than 22,500 total website visits, 1,500 YouTube video views, more than 1,700 new Twitter followers and 770 email subscribers. Fifty-six triangle professionals created profiles on the unique "Work in the Triangle: What's Your Angle" network, and the initiative has received 315 Facebook fans on its official account page.

QUOTES:
"We are incredibly excited to announce the launch #TriangleTuesdays," said Jennifer Bosser, assistant executive director for Wake County Economic Development. "We have a large number of companies that are hiring across multiple sectors in Wake County and the Triangle including a significant number of technology and life sciences positions. #TriangleTuesdays is another tool that we are offering to the local business community to highlight job openings to assist them in recruiting highly skilled talent."

NEW MEDIA CONTENT:
Work in the Triangle Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/WorkInTheTriangle

Work in the Triangle on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/WorkTriangleNC

Work in the Triangle on LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/company/2923123

DETAILS:
- The mission of Work in the Triangle supports the talent recruitment initiative of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce EDGE4 - Growing Great Campaign, which aims to expand the number of highly skilled employees in target industry sectors by 2013, and is one of five strategies designed to bring prosperity and growth to the region.

ABOUT WORK IN THE TRIANGLE:
Work in the Triangle is a regional talent attraction initiative to connect and recruit top talent with employers and job opportunities in the key industry clusters of the Triangle area of North Carolina. The initiative, led by Wake County Economic Development (WCED), is in partnership with the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, Competitive EDGE4, Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce, Chapel Hill Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, Orange County Economic Development, Research Triangle Foundation and the Research Triangle Regional Partnership. The initiative's talent recruitment strategy is to position the Triangle nationally and internationally as a smarter place for talented skilled professionals to work, live, play and learn by leveraging social, digital and mobile media, and developing content, including videos, testimonials and resource links. For more information, please visit http://www.WorkintheTriangle.com.

ABOUT WAKE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:
Wake County Economic Development (WCED), a program of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, is the primary economic development organization for Wake County and its 12 municipalities. WCED hosts clients evaluating Wake County for possible facility locations each year and facilitates dozens of corporate expansions, resulting in new jobs and capital investment for Raleigh and Wake County. Services available to companies that are considering relocating or expanding in Wake County include economic and demographic research, site and building inventory searches, visitation itineraries, community tours, corporate executive and employee briefings, employee relocation assistance, and post-relocation services. For more information, visit http://www.raleigh-wake.org.

ABOUT THE GREATER RALEIGH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE:
The Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce is the Triangle's largest nonprofit business membership organization made up of more than 2,400 member firms representing two-thirds of the private sector employment in Wake County. The Chamber has represented the interests of the local business community since 1888. For more information, visit http://www.raleighchamber.org.

Kathleen Donnelly
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