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Open Source Skills As a Job Seeker's Key Differentiator

We've done several posts on how open source skills can arm a college graduate looking for tech work, or a recently laid off worker, with powerful calling cards for finding employment. From working for commercial open source companies to working on open source-focused divisions at big companies such as Yahoo!, skills with tools such as PHP, Hadoop, and open source content management system platforms can really differentiate a tech job seeker from the pack.

TwitterJobSearch, oDesk, Elance and many other sites are good places to look for open source work. Today, I noticed this post from Dries Buytaert, founder of the Drupal open source content management system (which OStatic runs on), showing very favorable employment trends for people with Drupal skills.

Dries notes that demand for Drupal talent continues to grow quickly in the job market, and offers up this chart (from Indeed.com, which searches millions of job sites and charts opportunities spotted) comparing job growth for positions that emphasize Drupal-, Joomla-, and WordPress-based content management:

 

While Drupal is clearly a winner in this chart, as many traditional print publications and online sites switch to open source content managers, it's worth noting that job growth for all these platforms is rising over time. Whether you're in college, recently out, laid off, or just looking to create more personal job market value for yourself, open source skills make lots of sense to pursue.

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