In an effort to recruit future mainframe system workers, IBM reaches out to high school students.Through its Share user group and ZNextGen young programmers organization, IBM has been working to make high school students more aware of the existence of mainframe systems and the career opportunities therein.
While recruiting at the college level is not new to IBM, recruiting teenagers is a new approach embraced after the company identified what it considered an information gap at the younger age group.
Marc Smith saw this firsthand while volunteering as a System z University Ambassador three years ago.
"It was apparent that these students knew nothing about the mainframe, nor how they are used in industry," said Smith. "After this initial presentation I realized that in order for us to 'feed' the university programs we have seeded, that we need to get students looking at the colleges that offer mainframe topics."
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