Steve, A positive story. Thanks. Steven
> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:06:57 -0600 > From: [email protected] > Subject: An upbeat story > To: [email protected] > > Last week I taught a COBOL class for five days at a > small company up in Boulder. They have a refreshing > approach that I thought was pretty cool, and I wanted > to pass it on. > > This company (I'll call it 'A') is a subsidiary of a > large transportation company ('B'). Although they are > small, they run z/OS 1.12, use COBOL 4.2, and so on. > > * Each Spring for the last two years they go to the local > university career day and talk with students about to > graduate > > * Eventually they settle on four to hire > > * Then, they make their job offer through a contracting > company ('C') with the understanding if they work out > after a trial period, they will be hired to work > directly by 'A' > > * But what's cool is: a) they only interview students > with little or no IS / IT background and b) even > though the students will technically be employees of > 'C', 'A' arranges to train them > > The training is done by a mix of in-house people, > myself, colleagues, even competitors > > > The result is a small cadre of new employees entering > each year, sort of 'raised' in the local IT culture. > > > The new employees are solid and quickly productive, and > they have a long lasting loyalty to the company. The > current employees are, generally, pleased to see the > company expanding the workforce (after all, the new > kids are lower on the totem pole, as it were). > > > Although the program is new, it seems to be working very > well (I had a chance to talk with some of last year's > new hires as well as a few managers). > > So somebody is hiring for z/OS applications developers. > I consider that to be a little good news anyway. > > -- > > Kind regards, > > -Steve Comstock > The Trainer's Friend, Inc. > > 303-393-8716 > http://www.trainersfriend.com > > * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! > + Training your people is an excellent investment > > * Try our new tool for calculating your Return On Investment > for training dollars at > http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
