> > For as long as I've been in the business, it has not embraced new talent > - getting a start was always hard. People prefer to pay for knowledge > rather than train their own - no risk of (training) investment walking > out the door I guess. > Most of the work I see nowadays is to migrate shops off the platform, or > company consolidations. Tech staff walk because they can see no > prospect, or they don't have a job because of a merger. > Hardly encouraging for the future. > > I couldn't (and don't) recommend this as a long time prospect for people > looking to start a career. Despite the fact I have enjoyed my time. > This particular pond is drying up. > > Shane ... >
There is a risk of training new talent. I had worked for about a year in my first systems programmer job. There were two of us and it was decided between us and management that the workload had gotten to be great enough to require a third systems programmer. We found a very good person in the applications programming area, transferred him to technical support, and sent him away to the two week MVS internals class and then the JES2 internals class. Just 2 months after he got back from that class he left the company for a more lucrative position. Of course then we were in the 70s when everyone was moving around for more money. However, we had put a lot of financial and time resources into training this guy and he up and quit. It soured management on internal transfers and training for a while. Tom Kelman ***************************************************************************** If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. ***************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
