Jennifer Faulkner has found herself on the winning side of Atlantic Canada’s sharply shifting economy, taking one of the roughly 3,000 new business services jobs gained over the past four years — while thousands of workers in the troubled manufacturing sector were laid off.

"The pay is good," said the 37-year-old account manager at web-marketing firm Modern Media.

She started in January, one among about 100 people the firm expects to hire over the next five years.

"Somehow we found ourselves on the cutting edge of technology, which isn’t how others perceive Atlantic Canada. It’s a way we can be competitive because we can do this job wherever we are."

Services jobs in the financial sector, tech firms, call centres and health care — along with a small boom in the construction sector — led to a net increase of 23,000 jobs to the East Coast’s economy between 2004 and 2007, according to an Atlantic Provinces Economic Council study released Thursday...

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