I know Illinois State University, Normal, IL was doing 3 month full
time class to create programmers from existing non-IT staff at State
Farm / Country Companies Insurance companies in the metro area. They
had completed several sessions last update I got. They had to sign an
agreeement to work for 1 year or pay back the class costs.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Steve Comstock
<st...@trainersfriend.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
>
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>
> -Steve Comstock
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