[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[Scott Dorsey]

Jan-Erik Soderholm  <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>Today I had a call from a consultant brooker in Sweden. He had seen my
>profile on LinkedIn. He had an assignment from a large swedish company
>to find 10-20 VMS developers. This was not for a specific project for a
>limited time but to fill current vacancies. The guy sounded desperate.
>
>It seems as that company do not advert the VMS positions externally any
>more, maybe there is no meaning, they call the jobb brookers instead.

That is the case with pretty much all technical jobs.  The HR guys,
instead of doing their jobs, contract the work out to headhunters, who
bring in anyone they can find on the street.

>So their is definitely no problem to find OpenVMS work but there is
>some issues to find OpenVMS people to fill the vacancies. Anyway,
>that didn't suit me at the moment. Too much travel...

That's a lot of the problem... people familiar with OpenVMS are going to
be older people who aren't desperate.  Headhunters for the most part are
used to dealing with younger people who are desperate for anything they
can get, and they and the HR people don't know how to get older technical
people.

If I were looking for support VMS systems today, I would consider getting
skilled fresh-outs and teaching them.  But getting skilled fresh-outs who
want to learn an obsolete system is kind of difficult.  They exist, but
they are not thick on the streets.
--scott

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