'Net Features : online jobs

Hottest Summer Jobs Will Be in Development, Writing

Linc Wonham — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:40:00 GMT

Development positions with in-demand technologies such as Facebook API and Android SDK continue to enjoy the largest growth with no signs of slowing, according to the May Online Employment Report recently released by oDesk.

Also experiencing dramatic increases were a variety of online writing jobs, with technical writing positions up 1,758 percent since last year and blogging jobs up 974 percent. The summer months are an excellent time for employers to leverage on-demand talent online and tap into contractors with needed skills, while also presenting increased opportunities for freelance workers to build and develop relationships with new employers.

Despite the national unemployment rate recently edging up to 9 percent, oDesk experienced a record number of job postings on its site for the month of May. That figure was a 7-percent increase from the previous month, and has grown 81 percent since 2010.

Employers spent over $17 million in May while contractors worked over 1.6 million hours on oDesk.

Online Writers Take a Hit in Q1 Jobs Report

Linc Wonham — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:00:00 GMT

Freelancer.com has released the Freelancer Fast 50, which is the company’s findings on the fastest-growing online outsourcing jobs of the first quarter of 2011. The Freelancer.com Fast 50 charts the top 50 rising job categories in the online labor market quarter by quarter, providing a rolling, up-to-the-minute account of online freelance job trends.

The top three trends for the quarter included the following:

• Panda Pounds Writers: The most noticeable digital labor shift this quarter was not seen in what went up, but what went down. Freelancer.com has cited a massive decline in content writing jobs all across the board in the wake of Google adjusting its search algorithm. Article Submission jobs are down 29 percent, copywriting is down 19 percent and ghostwriting is down by 12 percent.

• Hardware Design Booming: Every category related to hardware product design is up significantly. Product design jobs are up 23 percent, Solidworks is up 25 percent, microcontroller jobs are up 21 percent and mechanical engineering is up 18 percent.

• Winners & Losers: Jobs related to Apple products continue to rise, with iPhone-related jobs gaining 12 percent, iPad jobs up 18 percent and Cocoa jobs up 41 percent. Android jobs are up 15 percent but jobs related to Microsoft products continued their seemingly terminal descent – MS Access down 15 percent; MS Expression down 28 percent; Windows Mobile down 9 percent; Microsoft general down 16 percent; Windows CE down 20 percent; Windows desktop down 23 percent and Windows Server down 27 percent. Nokia’s Symbian jobs also plummeted 32 percent.

Yahoo's Contributor Network, Exploring the Freelance Marketplace

Mike Phillips — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:00:00 GMT

Yahoo has fulfilled their vision when purchasing Associated Content six months ago. Rebranded as Yahoo Contributor Network, Yahoo is poised to be the biggest freelance market on the Internet. This week, we talk about the new offering from Yahoo and the new environment of freelancing - a surprisingly strong industry and one that can benefit both freelancers and those who hire them.

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