Despite rising interest rates and hiring challenges, a diverse array of Charlotte businesses keeps powering through an unpredictable economy. “There are 1.8 open jobs for every unemployed person,” Sophia Kearney-Lederman, senior economist for FHN Financial at First Horizon Bank, told business leadership at a recent dinner hosted by Charlotte Business Journal publisher TJ McCullough and sponsored by First Horizon.
Particularly hot are jobs in technology, leisure and travel and in transportation…