Tom you have given away the secret 😊 Recruit smart people who enjoy working with other smart people on hard problems for customers. They don't have to be experienced mainframers when they are hired. College recruiting is absolutely possible and partnerships with universities can be fruitful. I saw some great Apprenticeship programs in the UK recently from Barclay's bank and others. Compuware's engineering cadre includes many new to mainframe developers.
What Makes Millennials Love the Mainframe? Advice from Next-gen Devs https://youtu.be/CL72xilyve8 Two interesting things there was no script for this we shot a lot of video just letting people talk and then edited it down. Second I forgot this was almost two years ago and one of the devs is now a development manager. They next generation of mainframe developers won't follow the same path we did but they are quite capable of taking care of the platform for the next 50 years. Best Regards, Sam Knutson -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2019 11:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: I saw 7 new college mainframe hires! Last week I was invited to an IBM z15 meeting for a particular customer. There were 7 younger folks in the row behind me who stood out among all the (let's say) "older" people there. I was amazed when I found out they were recently hired out of college by the customer and are on a 3 year mainframe training program. Great work by the manager who pushed for a long-term solution, and got it approved. I hope other companies hear about this and consider it. The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named addressee only. It contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the named addressee or an authorized designee, you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you received it in error please notify us immediately and then destroy it ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
