On 5/22/2017 12:33 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
To the trade rags that claim finding COBOL devs is getting tougher, ignore. I'm a C developer, and I picked up COBOL in a few days.
Big corporations are going to have HR policies about only hiring people with many years of experience in the necessary language, not those who "can pick it up". Technically, it's not a policy. HR will look at anyone who matches the criteria specified by the hiring manager, and so they will reject only if the hiring manager specifies "X" years of COBOL. But, as a hiring manager, I can tell you I might do that if I need a lead on-shore resource, but if I am looking to replace a retiring COBOL dev, I will simply specify "COBOL experience" preferred, and if they don't have it, but they know C or Java and are OK with learning COBOL, I will hire them.
Or, I will pull someone from TCS or NTT or another off-shore firm. Jim