×
The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.
Seriously.
I've hired a LOT of people that way. Just find someone who is young and
looking for a job, interview them and make sure they have the right
attitude and aptitude, and then train them in IBM i.
It's not hard AT ALL.
Obviously you don't want to hire someone who wants to work on a
particular non-IBMi environment -- but typically these people won't
apply to you, anyway. If they do, you just weed them out via their
resume and/or interview, just like any other thing that would make a
candidate a poor fit.
If you're a COMMON member (if not, become one, it's not expensive) there
are bootcamps that are provided free with membership designed to help
people learn about the system. (And more are on the way!)
Additionally there's a huge content library with tons of things you can
learn. And it's also free with membership (i.e. no need to come to a
conference, unless you want to, of course.)
I have done this a LOT -- it's an easy and powerful way to bring people
to the platform. Don't expect them to have particular skills like RPG
out of the gate.... if you hold out for those people, you probably
won't find them. Hire someone who's just generally good with computers
(or networks, or admin, or programming, etc) and train them.
THAT is how we bring young people to the platform.
*-SK*
On 5/10/23 2:38 PM, Jack Woehr via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
Heard at NEUG:
Questioner: “How do we bring young people into the platform?”
Scott Klement: "Hire them."
❤
midrange.com
