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Who's Getting Hired in Tech? Last Week's Jobwire Graphs

2008-11-25T16:41:02Z

We all know the economy is in shambles and there are massive layoffs across most industries, including technology - but there are still new hires happening in tech and new media! Who's getting hired? That's what we're tracking at our blog Jobwire - the stories of lucky people with exciting new jobs.

Who's getting those jobs? What kinds of positions are being filled and in what sectors? Check out our first set of charts below from last week's aggregate activity on Jobwire to find out the answer to those questions. One interesting tidbit? Software developers are getting hired by social networking companies. If you got a job or your company made a hire in tech or new media this week - send us a note about it at jobwire@readwriteweb.com. Read on for details on how last week looked.

]]> Hires by Title

We reported on 48 hires last week and the following is the break-out by job title. We're sure that there are more interesting hires of developers going on and we're doing our best to find them - but they are a little harder to find than some of the executive hires that get announced by companies. None the less, we find these first numbers interesting.

Hires by Sector

What kinds of companies did we report on last week? Here's the break-out by sector.

Note: "Other" includes sectors like retail, search, security and gaming this week. For specifics, see the Jobwire site.

We expect next week's numbers by sector could look very different, but we'll be tracking them closely and we'll let you know. We think that people's new jobs are a lot of fun to find out about and we think the information can prove quite valuable.

RWW Jobwire is sponsored by VisualCV and reports on about 10 new hires in tech and new media every day. We hope that you'll join us there for all the daily news about the hottest new hires.

Comment from Chad Capellman on 2008-11-25

2008-11-25T17:50:47Z

Where would community people factor into this list, if at all?

Comment from Jamie on 2008-11-25

2008-11-25T17:53:47Z

Damn it! I knew I should've majored in "Other" in college.

Comment from Marshall Kirkpatrick on 2008-11-25

2008-11-25T18:04:06Z

Chad - I've put community people in marketing, though there weren't nearly as many last week as there the week before reported on Jobwire. I should probably spell this out more specifically. This is our first report, we'll be figuring out the best way to do these over the next few weeks.

Jamie - I've added some details about what's included in "other" but that's all the sectors with two or fewer hires that we reported on in the last week, like gaming, academia, etc.

Comment from Azam on 2008-11-25

2008-11-25T18:17:20Z

Good info.really open up my eyes,to the stumbling economy that's effected the world these days.

Comment from Arvind on 2008-11-25

2008-11-25T22:22:16Z

Interesting how the role breakdown doesn't include design or user research...

Comment from h shimbo on 2008-11-26

2008-11-27T03:04:31Z

it is clear that there have been far too many MBAs trowling around in corporate boardrooms. But, the Standford, MIT, Cornell science group (www.geocities.com/engineer_brunch) has had no problem with their jobs, or the security thereof. A sector might weaken, but even here, they need the IT dudes to keep the Internet parts of a company "alive." Thus, computer skills remain strong, and Needed.