How to Leverage Your Open Source Skills in the Changing Job Market

For countless people who are about to start a new year unemployed, this year's top resolution will be finding a job. We've reported before on how acquiring skills with open source technologies can be an effective differentiator or the job seeker. Just this past week, more evidence that this is true has rolled in, and in this post you'll also find some of OStatic's best collected resources for leveraging open source skills for employment.

For countless people who are about to start a new year unemployed, this year's top resolution will be finding a job. We've reported before on how acquiring skills with open source technologies can be an effective differentiator or the job seeker. Just this past week, more evidence that this is true has rolled in, and in this post you'll also find some of OStatic's best collected resources for leveraging open source skills for employment.

The Linux Foundation has just posted a fantastic infographic showing Linux job opportunity trends. You can view it here.  It shows that the majority of Linux-focused jobs around the world are concentrated in the U.S. We've also covered data from analysts showing that Linux skills are increasingly in demand in the job market.

As Hadoop gains more and more traction on the big data crunching scene, Hadoop skills are in demand as well. As InfoWorld has reported,  "Analysts and IT managers at the Hadoop World conference in New York this week repeatedly pointed to skills availability as one of the key challenges companies face in adopting Hadoop and said that those with the right skills could command healthy premiums." Indeed, not only are big companies such as eBay and startups such as Cloudera focused on Hadoop, but Hadoop is increasingly being adopted in government deployments...