This Week In Search Marketing Staffing – 11/20/08
While unemployment rates continue to climb, IT professionals remain in high demand largely due to the growing role of computers in the workplace. Ladd Egan of KRCG recently looked at how the IT job market is faring in his article, High Demand for Information Technology Jobs. One interesting fact Ladd noted is that according to Beyond.com, nearly 13% of all jobs posted online are in the information technology field, second only to job postings in the Healthcare and Medical industries. Thus we can feel confident in saying the IT field will continue to grow as more and more jobs are created to support tomorrow’s technology.
In other news, InfoWorld recently released their 2009 IT Career Survival Guide. As part of the guide, they pooled a number of resources they had developed throughout the year, as well as additional content to round out their guide. Some of my favorite resources from the guide are:
InfoWorld’s Survival Guide has over 25 IT Career resources, so if you have any questions about what to do next with your career, check it out.
Finally, while online advertising has continuously grown quarter over quarter for the past year, there has been a tremendous slow down in growth in the most recent quarters. Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch, recently compared the online advertising revenues of the big four (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask) to find that Online Ad Growth Grinds To A Halt. A year ago, online advertising was growing over 12% quarter over quarter, but in Q3 of this year online ad sales only grew 0.61% compared to Q2’s results. This small amount of growth can be misleading as Google is the only company used in the analysis whose revenues increased from Q2 2008 to Q3 2008. It will be interesting to see if there is any growth in Q4, as well as whether growth picks up when the economy stabilizes.
That's it for this week, check back next week for another update.
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