据oDesk的调查报告显示，在全球11月份发布的6万条远程招聘信息中，手机应用开发者，尤其是iOS应用开发者的岗位需求量最大。关于“手机应用”类型的人员需求排名，已从2009年的第19位上升到了2010年的第10位。

与2009年的情况一样，2010年招聘最为频繁的三个职位仍然是网页编程、网页设计和博客/网站资讯编辑。另外，SEO、数据录入、平面设计这三种人才的行情也非常走俏。

Hiring Up for Workers With Mobile

据游戏邦了解，翻译人才需求的增长率也达到了319%，那些精通西班牙语、德语和韩语的人才尤为抢手。PHP、HTML、CSS、WordPress、Photoshop、SEO、MySQL和JavaScript这几种关于网页开发的技术人员，均已成为最紧缺的十大技术人才行列（擅长英语写作的人员也在此列）。

该报告还指出，企划和市场营销的人员需求量也比2009年增加了两倍，增长率为123%。

游戏邦还发现，让oDesk代理招聘的三个主要人才需求国家是印度、菲律宾和美国，其次是中欧、亚洲国家和加拿大。

这份报告得出的结论是，网络在线工作为社会创造了大量的商机，这种工作不会受到地理位置的限制，只要员工具备相应的技术、经验和能力就能胜利。这种招聘方式适用于各种规模的企业，而且能让它们以更节省的成本创造更高的效率。对员工和承包商来说，这种工作可以让自己的事业、生活两不误，可以通过绩效来获取报酬，面向全世界寻找工作机会。（source:gigaom）

Report: Hiring Up for Workers With Mobile, Language Skills

Looking for opportunities as a web worker? Go global; go mobile. That’s the takeaway from a new report evaluating nearly 60,000 recent job postings for remote workers.

According to a report from oDesk, employers in December continued a previous trend of looking to hire mobile developers, especially those skilled in developing iOS applications. The “Mobile Apps” category has jumped from 19th place to 10th over the last year. This underscores predictions made in Simon’s recent article for GigaOM Pro, “Top Remote Work Trends to Watch for in 2011″ (sub. req.), and Aliza’s discussion of the ubiquity of mobile platforms.

The three most frequently-posted job categories (unchanged from the previous year) are web programming, web design and blog/article writing. In addition, the SEO, data entry, and graphic design categories continue to be popular.

The report also showed a very large (319 percent) increase in postings for translation jobs, and for those with expertise in such languages as Spanish, German and Korean. Technical skills used in web development, such as PHP, HTML, CSS, WordPress, Photoshop, SEO, MySQL, and JavaScript, hold most of the top ten ranked skills requested. The top ten skills list also includes English and writing.

The “Online Employment Report” also found that job postings for business planning and market strategy professionals more than doubled from 2009, with a 123 percent increase in hiring.

The report shows that the three top countries of origin for contractors employed through oDesk are India, the Philippines and the U.S., followed by other central European and Asian countries,and Canada.

The report concludes that “Online work is creating an economy of opportunity — where work is not linked to location, but to skills, experience and abilities. This shift towards a flexible, on-demand workforce is becoming an established hiring model for companies of all sizes to get more done with less, scale to meet demand, and increase efficiency. For employees and contractors, this allows them to manage their own work-life balance, get paid based on merit, and access an entire world of work opportunities.”（source:gigaom）