OR Jobs Created by IBM

One popular tech company is planning to create hundreds of OR jobs.

IBM has announced that it will hire 600 new employees in Oregon as a result of the company's recent acquisition of Beaverton-based Wilshire Credit Corporation, which will allow IBM to introduce a new mortgage software. The company chose Oregon over Charlotte, N.C., and Tulsa, Okla. for its new operations.

"We were very pleased," Jill Miles, national recruitment officer for the State of Oregon, told The Oregonian. "When you get something like this, everything else goes by the wayside and this is your focus, because the return to the state is so great."