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Good news from the HR office: Digital media and marketing gigs may be more plentiful in 2010

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The results of a new hiring survey are being released this week, painting a fairly rosy picture for jobs in digital media, online marketing, and technology for 2010.

The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange surveyed its 250 corporate members in October about their hiring plans for next year. (The response rate was 22 percent.)

Keeping in mind that hiring surveys are often optimistic (the result of execs who'd like to hire, but may not actually do so because of market realities), here are a few interesting data points from the MITX survey:

- Respondents expect to hire on average six new people per company. (One company, Boston-based CSN Stores, said it plans to hire 50+ new employees.)

- The skill sets respondents plan to hire for? Web development, creative, marketing, account services, design, and IT top the list.

- 95 percent of respondents will be hiring for jobs that require a BA/BS; 81 percent are looking for folks with more advanced degrees; 77 percent will be hiring both.

- 81 percent of respondents offer internships; 76 percent of them are paid.

- Most popular ways to find candidates? Colleagues/networking, internships, Craigslist, word-of-mouth, and jobs boards.

- 61 percent say the economy is affecting their hiring decisions, versus 71 percent in last year's survey.

tags digital media, jobs, marketing, MITX

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