Clark Morris wrote: <The thing I found most interesting was that only a high school <education was required.
A belief that formal education, diplomas, etc equate with intelligence, competence, qualifications to perform an occupation is a widespread contemporary prejudice. It's got a similarity of a faith. Occasionally expressions of this "faith" come up on this list, unchallenged, and they irritate me. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: January 27, 2008 5:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee On 27 Jan 2008 13:38:17 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:55:40 -0500, Don Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Something interesting appeared in my Inbox yesterday. It's from the >>Royal Bank of Canada >>... > >The COBOL requirement seems a bit odd for a system programming >position. It's not a bad idea in a COBOL shop, but it limits the audience >to those in or from application programming. Same comment for the >PL/I requirement. > >I wonder if this is an application tailored to fit one specific applicant. The thing I found most interesting was that only a high school education was required. Given that what I did in the 1970's and 1980's as a systems programmer and contributor to mods tapes didn't require a college education, I am glad to see this change. ( I do have an economics degree with ONE year of computer programming and numerical analysis). > >In any case, it's good to see at least one shop trying to address the >"greying" issue. > >Pat O'Keefe > Clark Morris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
