Anyone hear anything about the "skills realignment", aka find yourself another job or be RA'd?
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Does "IBM certified blah-blah-blah" mean anything in the industry anymore?
This is a serious question...when I worked for the company, IT certifications were all the rage...Cisco and Microsoft were big in their spheres of influence, and IBM was big in some sectors...like "IBM certified architect", "IBM certified professional" and "IBM certified project manager". At that time, one could get hired with those magic words. But now, many years later, does that stuff mean anything to employers anymore?
After this boo boo, it may be time to re-align Arvind's skills! Ot may be getting rid of him totally...
https://rumble.com/v40yf2c-omg-media-group-exposes-ibm-ceo-for-hiring-discrimination-ibm-whistleblower.html
I did some training. got 9 bages solving the quizzes with chatgtp .
now I am IBM professional but don't know anything.
All those people are on the bench because IBM doesn't supply a lot of meaningful retraining or the resources to support self-learning (lab and test environments). It is a vicious circle that affects IBM more than other firms in the IT world...the company demands intensive skills in highly specialized and expensive environments, yet most people will never have the opportunities to develop those skills to the point where they can be useful.
Have you ever tried to use IBM Cloud? By that I mean actually setting up a z/OS test image to the point where it IPLs and you can engage in meaningful self-training. Just one hour of uptime costs you $5 plus change. A week's worth of uptime (40 hours) will bill you a minimum $200 to your credit card. Who is willing to pay for that? None of the IBM departments I ever worked in would have ever paid that charge. It was easier to just send the employee to some empty "training" session with vacuous talking heads running Powerpoint presentations.
The bottom line is that IBM is back to the historical problem that has always afflicted it...it has a specialized and expensive product line that requires a lot of high-priced skills...skills that are expensive and difficult to acquire. In the meantime, other companies work in cheaper environments that don't cost nearly as much, and their employees gain new skills much more quickly and are employable much more quickly. You do the math.
I saw a seat / position in the Professional Marketplace with 40, yes, 40 professionals in play.
Many other seats / positions have 10 or more professionals in play.
Makes me wonder just how many people are on the bench at IBM...
...and why IBM doesn't have enough positions for them.
Yup, “redeployment” or “benching” I think it’s all the same. You have a few months to find something new and then bubbye .