No Panacea

oDesk provides some interesting charts on what technologies and skills are being contracted out. From a cursory look, these skills/technologies are in demand: Amazon services/API, Zend, Content Management (Joomla, Drupal), SEO, iPhone, XML, SAP, Project Management, Windows Administration, Adobe AIR, 3D Design; moderate/stagnant demand: ColdFusion, Facebook, OsCommerce, Perl, SQL, PostgreSQL, Zillow, Flash, Photoshop, Crystal Reports and sliding demand: hi5, Lotus Notes, Mambo, PalmOS.

I was searching on Google for “real estate jobs” and discovered that Target is proactively seeking unemployed real estate professionals.

Real estate and retail definitely have something in common: sales. If Target can recruit some of the best real estate professionals at heavily reduced labor costs, that’s a big win for them. That is until the real estate market picks up again. However, the property market is not likely to have an upward trend for the next several years. Interesting how companies are changing the recruiting strategies to take advantage of the labor shift.