Introducing Angela Connor• Change Agent• Social Media Expert• Founder and AuthorMeet Angela Connor, an Alliance of Women in Tech Leadership member, journalist, experienced agency executive, author, speaker, and now entrepreneur. I first encountered Angela, author of “18 Rules of Community Engagement: A Guide for Building Relationships and Connecting with Customers Online“ at a one-day social media […]

Introducing Loren Shumate• Marketing Executive• Brand/PR Expert• Campaign Strategist Meet Loren Shumate, an Alliance of Women in Tech Leadership member and a Marketing and Sales Leader with an envious employer portfolio. Loren worked for leading edge fast growth companies that include Netsertive, ZirMed, Allscripts, IBM Kenexa, Qlik,  and most recently, Phononic Inc. Loren’s leadership expertise lies […]

Introducing Julie Bryce!• Fractional CMO• Business Owner • Devoted MotherJulie Bryce- Alliance of Women in Tech Leadership Member Meet Julie Bryce, an Alliance of Women in Tech Leadership member and a global marketing leader with experience developing integrated marketing teams, designing marketing strategies, and launching new solutions to new audiences. She strives for authenticity and has […]

In my journey to find other like-minded women in technology leadership in the Triangle I explored groups, associations, Meetups, etc. Each one fell short and left me feeling dissatisfied and craving something better. In the interest of innovation I decided to develop my own organization to discover women in technology leadership right here in the […]

Employers constantly struggle with recruiting and how to improve the talent acquisition process. In today’s competitive business climate the recruitment and retention of talented employees is top priority for Leadership teams. A creative and productive workforce leads to higher profits but it also contributes to the overall health of your employer brand. Companies know a […]

Triangle Tech Connect, launched in November 2015, is a monthly review of entrepreneurial technology sales jobs and marketing jobs in the Raleigh, NC area. If you’re in a career slump in the middle of March Madness and you need a sales job or a new marketing job then be sure to take a look at […]

The High Five Conference in Raleigh, NC, hosted by the Triangle AMA, was a major attraction this past week. This fifth annual conference was started in 2013 and designed to bring Triangle marketing talent together to collaborate. Forbes Magazine called High Five “One of the Top Marketing Conferences to Check Out” and Marketers are paying attention. “Marketers […]

Cary, N.C. – Lucas Select Inc. is pleased to announce that Co-Founder Tricia Lucas has been selected by Triangle Business Journal (TBJ) as a 2018 Women in Business Awards winner. Tricia Lucas has over 25 years experience with technology companies in sales, marketing, recruiting, and business development roles delivering enterprise solutions. Prior to founding Lucas Select, Tricia worked […]

Excellent news. Your business has grown to the point that you need a sales manager but now you have to go through the hiring process. Before engaging executive recruiters, interviewing candidates or extending offers, take time to write a sales manager job description. A well thought out, concise job description sets expectations and provides a […]

Applying online feels like entering a resume black hole. I have sent out endless resumes but I never hear back. Recruiters call and ask for my resume and I never hear from them again. Recruiters won’t return my calls. Recruiters won’t tell me the name of the company. I never get feedback from my interviews. […]

Triangle Tech Connect, launched in November 2015, is a monthly review of entrepreneurial technology sales jobs and marketing jobs in the Raleigh, NC area. Are you in a career slump? January is a time of reflection and a perfect time to kick-start your career. Indeed ranked Raleigh, NC 3rd for Best Cities for Job Seekers […]

Triangle Tech Connect, launched in November 2015, is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. As 2017 winds down, the hiring heats up in preparation for a robust 2018. Smart hires are critical to the success of any business so don’t let the holidays distract you. If you missed November’s […]

The Raleigh, NC Convention Center was packed as expected last week at the Internet Summit Raleigh 2017 with over 90 sessions and workshops designed to give you the latest digital marketing trends and best practices. Over 2,500 attendees came from a broad range of organizations including national brands, agencies, technology companies, media, B2B providers, associations […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. November is a festive time and is about being thankful. As is custom on Thanksgiving Day, giving thanks for all we have can be easy or hard depending on what’s going on in our lives particularly for job transitioners. […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. October, known for the summer to fall transition, is probably best known for the celebration of Halloween. But did you also know that October is also Pickled Peppers Month, Pizza Month, American Cheese Month, Cookie Month, Adopt A Shelter […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. Check out these hot hot hot Triangle companies that are hiring for over 50 sales and marketing jobs in July. ArchiveSocial provides a social media archiving solution for records management, regulatory compliance, and e-discovery. They are recognized by Gartner […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. Before you soak up the sun this summer be sure to check out the local Triangle companies that are hiring for sales and marketing in June. Bronto, a NetSuite now Oracle company, provides a cloud-based commerce marketing automation platform to […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. Lucas Select Inc. partnered with the AMA Triangle to host a Job Fair on May 18th so this issue features the available marketing and sales openings with the exhibitors. The list includes Align Technology, Bandwidth, Capstrat, Charles & Colvard, […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. April is a symbolic month for a variety of observances, causes, and traditions. In Catholic tradition, April is the Month of the Resurrection of the Lord. It is also the month of observance for the Qingming Festival, Rama Navami, […]

It’s a struggle all companies face. Every year, bad sales hires cost companies millions and no company is immune. A widely referenced study by CareerBuilder suggests that 27% of U.S. employers responding to a survey estimate a bad sales hire costs them more than $50,000. Finding the right people is a challenge but finding the […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. While it may be still freezing on the east coast, Spring is taunting us with its surprisingly early arrival or so we thought. While we may have been teased we welcome the Spring awakening and all that it represents. […]

For good or bad, Glassdoor is here, and other review sites can be expected to emerge to compete and or replace. This is neither totally good news for employees and job seekers nor bad news for employers, particularly those who learn to use Glassdoor to their advantage to engage their current workforce and reinforce their […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. If you want to work at a cool tech startup, you’re not alone. Fifty-one other job seekers are applying for that very same position, according to Jobvite. Technology, media, and consumer internet are among the most competitive industries so […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. Quality hires are critical to the success of any business even in December. In fact, December can be the perfect time to find a new position. Savvy managers are planning ahead, making changes, and sourcing new talent now. Open headcount, […]

If you haven’t lost at least friend online or offline this election season then you are definitely in the minority. This past election has been costly in a variety of ways. Emotions were off the charts on both ends of the political spectrum during the recent Presidential campaign and voters were quick to exercise their […]

Smart hires are critical to the success of any business even in December. In fact, December can be the ideal time to start hunting for new employees. Since overall talent management is crucial, smart managers amid the holiday social calendar, are planning ahead, making changes, and sourcing new talent now. Many companies in the Tech […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. November evokes many things to Americans. Whether it’s nostalgic images of football, cooler temperatures, endless leaf management, Charlie Brown, pumpkin spice lattes, or turkey pardons, it most certainly includes Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was founded as a religious observance to give […]

For more than 30 years  Triangle AMA has offered Triangle marketing professionals the opportunity to learn and grow through professional development and networking. Now 700 members strong, we’re the premier marketing association in the Triangle and Eastern North Carolina. Our mission is to provide value to Triangle area marketers (members, non-members, agencies, companies, and colleges) by […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. October brings a break in the heat and beautiful landscapes brimming with Fall foliage. Leaves aren’t the only thing that will change. With election day just around the corner, companies are working hard to predict how the election will […]

With election day just around the corner, hiring professionals are working hard to predict how the election results will affect the economy and the job market. Pre-election reaction reveals that employers are responding to the uncertainty of the outcome by reduced spending and hiring. A recent study from Duke University revealed that 47% of CFOs […]

Employer brand may seem like the latest trend in a world of social media and high-tech recruiting practices. But it’s not. Experts say it has been a game changer since the 1990s and will be a dominant force in recruiting strategies in the future. So what does this ominous prediction mean for you, the CEO, […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. It’s September and that means back to school for the kiddies and back to work for those of you that might have been putting off that job search to enjoy the summer. The bad news is you are out […]

The modern employment culture has a few flaws that employers like to sweep under the rug. Older workers are finding it almost impossible to retire at 65 and are continuing to work 70 years old and beyond while some employers subtly seek to push them out.  Age discrimination over 50 is an issue hindering hiring […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. The “dog days of summer” conjures up images of those summer days so brutally hot that even dogs couldn’t muster up a tail wag. Interestingly, this common phrase doesn’t have anything to do with dogs or summer. The dog […]

Working from home also referred to as telecommuting, home, remote, mobile, virtual, or cloud working, is one of the fastest growing trends in the workplace with 3 out of 5 North American workers stating they work remotely. According to statistics from the American Community Survey, 2.6% of the American workforce, or 3.2 million people are […]

There is one inescapable fact: our world is becoming increasingly interconnected as a result of the digital phenomenon of social media. There are currently 1.65 billion users on Facebook alone; a number that accounts for a major percentage of the world’s population. Where platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest provide places for friends to connect […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. We’ve all been there. You know… when you just can’t get motivated to rush to the office. There is a reason it’s called work so don’t stress if you’re a little distracted right now in the heat of the […]

We have all experienced that dreaded job search and most of you aren’t eager to repeat the process. Unfortunately, we aren’t always in control and being downsized in today’s market is almost a certainty. The hiring landscape has changed dramatically and in this do-or-die landscape where only the most relevant employees survive, there is no […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. Summer may be on the minds of many job seekers but it isn’t slowing down the need to staff up by local Triangle Technology companies. Before you head off to the beach be sure to check out these 52 […]

Photo credit: Ricardo Barandiaran Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. If you weren’t fortunate enough to be among the 200 plus attendees at last week’s sold out Triangle AMA Luncheon then you missed a real treat. The first CMO “She Suite” panel moderated by Karen […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. Spring has sprung and the trees and flowers have awaken from an interesting winter. Change is definitely in the air making March the month you might want to consider making that career change. It’s a great time to spring […]

The High 5 Conference, hosted by the Triangle AMA, was a complete sell-out this past week in downtown Raleigh, NC. The conference was conceived in 2013 to bring local marketers and creatives together to share inspiration, to collaborate, and to celebrate the talent that is right here in the Triangle. While the local community support was […]

By: Heidi Scott Giusto, Career Path Writing Solutions Some people love grammar, some people hate grammar. Some people love serving dutifully as the “grammar police,” while others enjoy ridiculing grammar fanatics. I’m going to let you in on a little secret most people don’t know: grammar can be arbitrary. Really. In English, some of our […]

By Mir Garvy Haynes Most jobseekers don’t realize that almost half of all employers expect to negotiate salaries. But if you are interviewing for a job and you don’t initiate or pursue salary negotiations, you could be throwing away thousands of dollars. Think of it this way: a higher starting salary pays you now and […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. Are you currently tired of relying on others for your success? Perhaps you feel stuck in a corporate job and lost in the world of processes and bureaucracy. Have you forgotten how to spell innovation much less be a […]

Once upon a time after working very long days and weekends, I concluded I was more than ready for a business partner. Besides splitting the workload I longed for a business companion to collaborate on new ideas and share a common vision for success. Overall I felt a business partner would divide the workload, add […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Technology Sales and Marketing career opportunities. Welcome to 2016. I think many would agree that the year has gotten off to an interesting start. Facing an election year, stock market woes, Ageism, and the trickle-down effects of Obamacare it is too soon to say just […]

Welcome to 2016 where everything is new again. New resolutions of course but to Sales Leaders it is a time for new budgets, new sales goals and quotas, and new headcounts. Top candidates will be harder to hire because the drop in unemployment rate and the creation of more jobs means more choices and competing […]

Triangle Tech Connect is a monthly review of local entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing career opportunities. North Carolina’s Triangle is developing into a popular technology market. With the country’s sixth lowest average annual cost per employee–at 175 square feet per person–Raleigh-Durham’s tech sector presence will continue to expand in 2016. Here are some of the latest […]

There is no such thing as a “permanent” job anymore. On 12/7, the Triangle American Marketing Association’s Transitions SIG Speaker’s Series will host Joe Novara, a professional speaker and author of the book “Intentional Networking”. During his seminars and workshops, Joe takes the WORK out of NETWORKING by teaching simple techniques, tips and systems, helping job […]