One in five employers expect to hire full-time staff during the next three months. One in four plan to hire contract or temporary workers. If you live in the Northeast the percentages are likely higher.
Professions in Demand
Information Technology (IT) professionals are three times more likely to be in demand than creative/design professionals.
Here are the positions for which employers are most likely to hire contract or temporary staff for the remainder of 2010:
- IT | 27 percent
- Administrative | 25 percent
- Engineering | 12 percent
- Finance and Accounting | 12 percent
- Sales and Marketing | 10 percent
- Creative/Design | 9 percent
Size of Companies Hiring
Large companies are more likely than small companies to hang a Help Wanted sign during the fourth quarter:
~ employers with more than 250 employees | 26 percent are hiring
~ employers with 51 to 250 employees | 24 percent are hiring
~ employers with 50 or less employees | 13 percent are hiring
These findings were obtained from a survey that included more than 2,400 hiring managers and human resource professionals and more than 3,100 workers. A press release is available from CareerBuilder. A Flash player version of the survey results is also available.
Boston Market October
The list of Top 20 Web Technologies in Boston has been updated for October and is presented in the right-hand column.
~ ASP.NET | up 32%
~ C# up | 26%
~ SQL Server | up 12%
Other technologies also saw double digit monthly gains:
~ Python | up 23%
~ PHP | up 17%
~ Web Services | up 13%
~ Ajax | up 11%
Year-End Rally
Clearly, programming skills are in demand. If you are looking for work, here is a two-part strategy for participating in a successful year-end jobs rally:
- develop and highlight your information technology (IT) skills
- target companies with 50 or more employees
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