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Job opportunities v competencies: focus on these?
oDesk, the freelancer haven, did — yet another — good thing and published this awesome table. It’s a “fill ratio” table that show the imbalance between job offers and how much success the companies are having filling them in.
It is very interesting because it is, in my opinion, an indicator of where one should focus their training effort in the current rather depressed market.
| Skill | Average # Jobs Per Month | Fill Ratio |
| iPhone | 93 | 23.96% |
| AJAX | 315 | 27.07% |
| Java | 75 | 27.65% |
| Graphics | 106 | 29.13% |
| XHTML | 163 | 29.31% |
| SQL | 112 | 29.89% |
| XML | 111 | 30.28% |
| PHP/IIS/MS SQL | 114 | 30.31% |
| JavaScript | 339 | 30.90% |
| SEO | 201 | 30.97% |
| MySQL | 658 | 31.65% |
| PHP | 731 | 33.84% |
| English | 109 | 34.99% |
| Flash | 257 | 35.86% |
| Writer | 101 | 36.36% |
| Joomla | 236 | 37.11% |
| Drupal | 117 | 37.75% |
| Data Entry | 120 | 37.95% |
| html | 237 | 38.16% |
| WordPress | 197 | 39.36% |
| Photoshop | 285 | 39.61% |
| CSS | 150 | 42.71% |
| Excel | 106 | 48.31% |
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Job Openings
I am looking for a few people to join my team full time – not sure yet if they will all join my main team of whether I will create a new team.
I am looking for talented developers; several profiles:
Profile #1
Web developers, who breathe web technologies and are not afraid of web languages such as PHP 5, Python, Ruby…Rapid Development methodologies will be used but you must also be a person capable of following a process such as CMM and CCPM (it’s actually pretty simple!)
Profile #2
Java developers, and I mean POJO, but also Spring, Tomcat, Axis2…No J2EE though.
Profile #3
Embedded developers who can work on the development of a solid system architecture. C is your language of choice. There will be some PHP as well.
But really, about you
You must have experience but more importantly you must be a smart individual.
Knowledge of web services is a real “plus.”
Knowledge of computer networking (IP, RIP, OSPF, MPLS… ) is a double “plus.”
Having heard of things such as Second Life is another “plus”
Why you should seize this opportunity
All jobs are located in sunny Southern California, pay is good (these guys are more or less on the ball); we offer full medical coverage, a great and flexible 401K (and I mean *great*), options, a cool team (no, really!), nerdy equipment… And I will twitter about you so it’s instant fame 
There are many more reasons such as how friendly the team is to open source developers, or the 20% rule I offer to creative team members but I will try to keep this short. You get the idea…Oh, and if we can help with relocation if necessary.
The only catch is that I need to hear from you soon. So, send me your resume. Email jobs [at] voilaweb [dot] com
Introducing the team hat:
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