Re-booting recruitment.

• Position: Triangle

Mike Lipps knows how competitive recruiting talent in the technology industry is, having worked for Intuit Inc. in Silicon Valley. That's why the vice president and managing director of LexisNexis' law-software division arranged for the company to sponsor the High Tech Club at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and to partner with N.C. State University's innovation-management program. His division is planning to hire 350 people over the next five years, so he wants first dibs on the best developers graduating from Triangle universities. Nearly a dozen tech companies are in the same position, needing to fill hundreds of jobs at new or expanding operations in the region. Citrix Systems Inc.'s building under construction in downtown Raleigh will have a gym, gourmet coffee machines, gaming systems and pingpong tables. Red Hat and LexisNexis offer employees time off to volunteer in the community. "It's much more about culture," says Jennifer Bosser, assistant executive director of Wake County Economic Development and head of its Work in the Triangle program. "How to brand yourself as a company that is doing something that is going to change the world." The hiring spree has helped the region rebound from the recession faster than the rest of the state and much of the nation. In January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Raleigh-Cary was one of only 14 U.S. metros to have gained more jobs than lost between November 2007 and November 2012.

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7.4%

Increase of tech jobs in Raleigh-Cary between 2009 and 2012

8th

The metro's rank on Forbes list of "Cities Winning the Battle for Information Jobs"

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