RE: RE: Midrange Jobs National Discussion

John,

This doesn't hold true in the area where I live.  Quite the contrary.  In fact, 
the city where I live (Hagerstown, Maryland) we even have a technical high 
school.  Although the school is relatively small, it seems that more of the 
"in" group of kids are showing interest in technical careers.

I even have a company strategy to recruit the highly talented ones straight out 
of Tech High either to work part-time while they continue their education or 
pursue a fulltime IT career directly out of high school similar to how I began 
my career.

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" Our experience within the last few years is that it is hard to find
seasoned ISeries people who can handle large systems and large scale
projects.  When we go looking, the prospects are slim."

This to me is one of the great mysteries.  As has been apparent in these
threads, there are many System i folks out there who seem to be looking for
work.  At the same time I constantly hear from customers that one of the
reasons they are considering moving off the box is a lack of qualified
staff.  You don't mention that you are looking for "cheap" staff - which is
often one of the problems - so why are all the qualified people not rushing
after your vacancies?

Have you considered training folks with experience in other languages?  Or
perhaps even training people with aptitude and experience in your industry
to program?

As I noted in an earlier post - the staff shortage is one that System i is
simply seeing before other platforms because as a community we are small
compared with Java etc. But I am convinced that outsourcing will be a
necessity before long because there simply aren't new kids entering the
field.  Comp-sci is passé - the kids aren't interested.

Jon Paris
Partner400

www.Partner400.com 



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