Elance.com recently released its Online Employment Report predicting renewed optimism for 2011 as companies both large and small increase demand for skilled Web Professionals.
IT, Facebook App Developers and Content Creators (blog, tweets, websites) are in high demand with Online Marketers the fastest growing segment and is up 74% year-over-year, revolutionizing the workplace as companies adopt a hybrid-organizational staffing model that promotes offsite and online employment.
In fact, 40,000 new offsite and online positions were added each month (US), contributing to over $340,000,000 million in earnings during 2010, as job-seekers embrace greater flexibility in their work schedule; proving that less face-time around the office can mean more productivity in a increasingly dynamic marketplace.
More trends for Web Workers include:
*IT is still King
*Mobile continues to fly; Android on top
*WordPress is the undisputed champ of content
*Facebook Experts growing in demand and getting even hotter
*HTML5 explodes but Flash holds steady
*Texas the new Online Employment hot-spot
And, Online Marketing will continue to grow as businesses make heavy investments in online branding, media and customer acquisition strategies like social media marketing, affiliate marketing and search engine marketing. In the last Quarter of 2010 (US), social media marketing saw a 20% growth and moved to the No. 26 position on the top 100 most desired job-skills list as substantial marketing dollars are being deployed across social platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
If you’ve got online skills then SHOOT them out in your resume – employers are looking for you! If you don’t have the skills, then check out my other blog, http://blog.stayathomebizreview.com/ for helpful resources, information and tid-bits to get you started and thriving.
Check out the full report at Elance.com
http://www.elance.com/p/online-employment-report.html
Cheers,
Trish King
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