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Does your business depend on engineers with up-to-date IBM System z development, deployment, and admin skills? Looking for students who can help fill out your System z team? You're starting at the right place.
The IBM Destination z zSkills Connection can help provide answers for anyone in the mainframe community who requires z Skills. The resources on this page will help you do the following:
- Locate students with System z skills
- Find colleges and universities that teach System z skills
- Find coops and interns to help you round out your mainframe team
- Help enable colleges and universities to teach System z skills
Please refer to the web-based resources listed below to begin making the connection to System z skills. We will update this information as we determine new resources and as we hear from Destination z members about what they need. Get your ideas and requests to zSkills@us.ibm.com and we'll do our best to help.
How do I locate students with System z skills?
Follow this two-step process to find students who might be candidates for your System z development team:
- Review the list of schools at the IBM Academic Initiative System z page
- Send an e-mail to the contact listed next to the school name. This is usually the professor or department chair for the mainframe program. Ask them about their mainframe curriculum, students, and when they are available.
How do I locate schools teaching System z?
How do I get co-ops and interns for my System z development team?
Work with the contacts at the schools listed at the IBM Academic Initiative System z page. Many of the educators want to start internship programs with companies that use and or develop for the mainframe platform.
How do I encourage schools you are connected with to teach IBM System z
Follow these steps to encourage schools to develop a System z-oriented curriculum:
- Identify a contact at the school - a professor, teacher aid, department chair, dean or anyone willing to schedule a call with faculty. Use the list published at the IBM Academic Initiative System z page
- Send a note to zSkills@us.ibm.com. Identify the contact at the school and say that you would like IBM to assist with enabling the school to teach System z. We will be back in touch with you to pursue this opportunity.
System z activities in academia
- Main IBM Academic Initiative System z program page. Information about joining the program as well as how to teach and learn mainframe skills.
- EnergiZed, special supplement to the IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe edition. Profiles of 28 schools teaching mainframe skills.
- IBM Academic Initiative System z flyer. How IBM works with academic institutions to build mainframe skills.
- IBM System z on Campus Facebook group. A gathering point for promoting System z technologies and skills on the huge online student community for students. Registration required.
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