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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – As North Carolina’s unemployment rate continues its steady decline, employers across the state are simultaneously ramping up their hiring efforts. There are currently tens of thousands of jobs on offer across the Triangle region alone. According to the latest data from the North Carolina Department of Commerce, the state’s unemployment rate hovered around 5% in April, reflecting only a slight drop from the previous month. Still, that figure is 8.5 percentage opoints lower than a year ago, when unemployment hit 13.5%. But the pace of hiring varies widely from sector to sector. April’s most significant job gains came from manufacturing, construction, leisure and hospitality services, information technology, and education and health services, per NC Department of Commerce data. At the same time, professional and business services, trade, transportation and utilities, government, financial activities, mining and logging, and other services saw decreases

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