Over a decade ago, I put a resume on Linkedin calling myself as a 'z/OS storage manager'. I received requests to apply for jobs managing storage units rented to people who wanted to clear out their home garages.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Robert Prins Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2025 11:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Texas Comptroller's email system. DO NOT click links or open attachments unless you expect them from the sender and know the content is safe. On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 at 13:25, rpinion865 < [email protected]> wrote: > It is not uncommon for me to get emails from offshore recruiters for > non-IT jobs in my home state. It seems the match criteria that is > being used is based on state of residence instead of job experience. > That's marginally less imbecile than the matching process used by the Belgistani jobcentres, who seem to match first on "developer", yes, just "developer" and then on language, like, yes not kidding, Dutch or French, which means that I'm invariably "one of the 125 best matched candidates"... Robert. -- Robert AH Prins robert(a)prino(d)org The hitchhiking grandfather <https://prino.neocities.org/index.html> Some REXX code for use on z/OS <https://prino.neocities.org/zOS/zOS-Tools.html> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
