The Mainframe Skills Shortage – train your way out.

Mainframe technicians, programmers and specialists are getting old. Large numbers of them will be drawing their pensions soon. Are they the respected elders of your mainframe tribe ? or the grey haired fuddy duddies that the youth want nothing to do with ? The answer is likely to be the latter, as far as computing skill sets go mainframe is not near the top for new IT entrants, they want to be in the rock’n’roll world of Web, Java, Linux and the like.

Two important facts:
Recent figures show that 80% of the people who work in mainframe support are 50 years of age or older.

The Universities and Technical colleges are on the whole, providing IT courses with little or no mainframe content.

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