Marketing and social networking companies are hiring developers and community managers.
One of the things we're most excited about here at Jobwire, in addition to the individual stories about peoples' exciting new jobs, is the aggregate data that's becoming available as we report on more and more new hires. Below we've published two pie charts illustrating hiring trends over the past 6 weeks, split up by job title and company sector. Some of the numbers are not what we expected.
Of course these hires are just the ones we've been able to dig up or that we've been told about - but we think they offer an interesting snapshot of which parts of the tech and new media industries have momentum and where that momentum is pointed. Below the charts we offer a few thoughts about what we find particularly thought provoking about these numbers.
Come back next week (or subscribe!) for another weekly update to these aggregate stats. If you've got a new job or have made a new hire, we hope you'll let us know about it by emailing jobwire@readwriteweb.com.
Our takeaways:
* Marketing firms are doing lots of hiring. That makes us think that as economic pressure builds, companies are budgeting more for outsourced marketing services to push harder for what customers they can find.
* Social networking companies are making a lot of hires. Growth in the sector has been strong in terms of traffic, but most analysts suspect the sector is having a hard time monetizing. Maybe these companies know something about their business that the rest of us don't.
* Recommendation technologies are on the chart for hires as well. Recommendation is a long term play that some say will be just as big as search. Customers are putting money into these kinds of services right now and thus the recommendation companies are hiring.
Our takeaways:
* Community manager/new media specialist is bigger than lots of other titles, almost as big as sales and marketing. We've been saying that community manager jobs are hot and here's numbers over 6 weeks to prove it.
* Despite the economic slowdown, there are lots of developers getting hired. Twice as many, in fact, as sales and marketing people. That is, unless you include community manager and new media specialists as marketing and sales.
* Are community managers and new media specialists the hot new sales and marketing pros? We've argued that these positions involve far more than sales, but these hiring numbers make us wonder.
Those are our takeaways from those numbers - what thoughts do they bring to your mind? Come back next week for updated numbers and please join us on Jobwire daily for breaking news about peoples' new jobs in tech and new media.
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Hmm, interesting, where would design and UX live in this area? Design should be a huge part of any web project IMHO, it's a shame that we continue to compartmentalize tech from design when the best products are the result of tech and design working together.
Posted by: Karl Long | December 15, 2008 12:17 PM
Karl, agreed. Design/UX hires have been put into the "Developer/designer" category in the second pie chart. That's the biggest category and in time it would be nice to break out some specifics about what kinds of developers and designers are getting hired right now.
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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December 15, 2008 12:19 PM
Our post summing up the last 240 hires we've reported on in tech and new media. What kinds of companies are hiring? What kinds of jobs are they filling? Our pie charts see all!!
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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December 15, 2008 12:51 PM
It would be nice to see a monthly/weekly delta to see what sectors are growing.
Posted by: John McGonegal | December 15, 2008 1:16 PM
John, we're just getting our heads wrapped around these numbers but check back next week and we'll be offering a more sophisticated view of the numbers that includes weekly changes - the hottest job sectors and titles week by week, relative to past weeks.
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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December 15, 2008 1:18 PM
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Posted by: ewing2001
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December 15, 2008 4:16 PM
Great report: BTW: Where are you aggregating these numbers? (jobwire?)
I am an executive recruiter for an interactive marketing agency and we hired a slew of people in our space over the last month. I now have 17 new executive roles in January alone to recruit for. We are growing and hiring like mad. Woudl love to chat if you would like.
Darrin Grella
http://darringrella.blogspot.com
Posted by: darringrella | December 15, 2008 6:56 PM
On the developer end, this has good trends info on specific growth, or lack thereof, in the various skills.
http://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-web-developer-skills-in-most-demand-php-ajax-mysql/
or their trends page
http://www.odesk.com/trends
Posted by: Frank Higgins | December 16, 2008 12:06 PM
Great stats that show what we're seeing in the marketplace. Demand for social media professionals who understand it, can operationalize it, and show results is still high. Base level moderation (think defensive work in removing spam, etc.) is also growing from an outsourced perspective.
To add to your stats, we've added two social media business consultants and three community managers in the past month in response to client growth.
Regards,
Mike
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Posted by: Mike Rowland | December 17, 2008 8:42 AM
I would say I agree with your analysis. At least in the software and development industry. I own a website development company, and not only has my business remained steady, but I've also recently hired an internet marketer to handle the social media aspect of my blog. It's nice to finally see some hopeful news for everybody out there.
Posted by: Scott Mahler | December 26, 2008 2:33 PM