Comments on: SharePoint’s Explosive Job Growth

By: Data Mashup Guy

Data Mashup Guy — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:14:26 +0000

Thanks for the link to the charts at Indeed. It’s been a while since I needed to use that site (thankfully) so I was missing out on the data they were sharing. Now I just wish they made the data open for people like me to mash up up in my own visualizations to share back to the world.

By: EndUserSharePoint

EndUserSharePoint — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:39:47 +0000

Would love to get a copy of your 101 document and share it here on the site. Might even be worth an eBook distribution. Thanks. — Mark

By: Kerri

Kerri — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:08:16 +0000

Oh, I like that! Why don’t you write something about it and share with us here on EUSP what you did and what came out of it? That is a topic I’m very interested in. Would love to hear what other people are doing for summer intern programs.

By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:17:54 +0000

Same result for our company. I’m just finishing up with 2 University Summer interns. After 2 months…they are ending the summer by training our 40 strong Training team and have prepared a SharePoint 101 document for the attendee’s to reference.

By: Richard Warren

Richard Warren — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:05:43 +0000

I found a similar chart from here: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/sharepoint.do
I used it as a part of a successful business case to convince the company I work for to invest serious time into SharePoint as a platform for delivering business solutions. It was also enough for me to personally sign up for the USPJ Academy to get my skills to a suitable level.
The comparison to the competition in the indeed.com chart is a real eye-opener and just adds to argument that SharePoint is a pretty safe bet right now.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:15:24 +0000

Excellent post! Targets the “hotness” of SharePoint right now, and for the future.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:02:57 +0000

I would like to see SharePoint classes offered in some schools (Community Colleges/Technical schools) here Colorado. There are classes for other Office products, why not SharePoint?

By: Kerri

Kerri — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:15:57 +0000

Great article Wahid, thanks for some hard numbers to point to as we evangalize to our customers! We are indeed in a good place if we are already embracing this technology. I was fortunate to have a really bright summer intern (Hannah Zimbeck) these past few months. She was such a joy to work with, while her friends were working on entering data on spreadsheets at the lumbar yard over the summer, she was learning Sharepoint. She picked it up in just a few weeks and was off running with solutions for everything I threw at her. Numbers like the ones in your graph above make it obvious to me that Sharepoit internships are going to be the hottest thing going. Now we need a community built internship program, so we can provide them with the best foundation possible. It won’t take long for these new grads to recognize Sharepoint is the wave to ride!