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ticho writes:
"About 77% of hiring managers say finding Linux talent is a priority this year, up from 70% last year, and there's 'explosive demand' around the world for people with Linux skills, according to a recent report. A survey found hiring managers at tech-powered companies are focusing more attention on Linux talent, with the result that those who can work with the open source operating system will earn stronger-than-average salary increases.
Other findings include:
More than nine in 10 hiring managers plan to hire a Linux professional in the next six months;
Hiring managers are increasing the number of Linux professionals they are searching for. Forty six percent of hiring managers are beefing up their plans for recruiting Linux talent over the next six months, a three-point increase over last year.
Knowing Linux advances careers. Eighty-six percent of Linux professionals report that knowing Linux has given them more career opportunities, and 64 per cent say they chose to work with Linux because of its pervasiveness.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by sl4shd0rk on Friday March 07 2014, @08:45PM
FTFA: "A survey sponsored by the Linux Foundation and Dice.com,"
So, a group that builds a lot of servers and pushes a lot of Linux (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members) partnered with a hiring firm (aka: Buckfeta Inc.) to do a survey? Would the "9 of 10 hiring manager" perhaps all be employed by any of the L.F. corporate memberships, or was this a random blind survey across a wide berth of the IS field?
I'm all for more Linux popularity, but blatant, douchey, number games do nothing for anyone but the players.
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday March 07 2014, @10:21PM
Hmm, does this mean that a certain company that runs a website that used to have a lot of commentators with expertise in Linux is looking to hire some replacements?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Friday March 07 2014, @11:46PM
Replacements is a bit much. All they want is audience members that are actually interested in going there to have content nicely dropped off to them, and they can see a couple of soundbite comments and consume plenty of delicious advertisements.
I'm not sure they actually want anybody intellectual at all, in fact, in their own words they wanted to "broaden the audience". Which is the way entertainment execs say they want more eyeballs glued to the screen that they can sell.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by ticho on Saturday March 08 2014, @12:26AM
I'm sure the survey was indeed loaded, but the important part is that the "results" are posted to sites which MBA-types read, thus raising their awareness that this weird "Linux" thing exists - even though they most likely have no idea what it might be.