About a week ago, a headhunter called me about a possible position. However, I was considered too rusty for them to refer to my former employer. After chatting with a couple of people I realized that this was a bottom fishing headhunter who doesn't know technology that well.
The headline for the ad read as follows:
Job Title: Mainframe Programmer
Location: New York, NY or Pittsburgh, PA
Duration: 12 months initial contract & high possibility of extension
Need to come in the office one day/week
Since I posted the email last week, I won't post the full text again. The fellow that runs the shop is making decisions as if the mainframe is just another set of letters in the alphabet soup of computer jargon. As such, one would want the freshest of skills in any person being presented to a prospective client. However, no one is being trained for mainframes anymore, and several people say that many firms are desperate to temporarily hire retirees to get them to the point where their old systems can be retired.
Given that the headhunter and I have no written contract or obligation to work with each other, or to keep each other's secrets, I will probably contact people I know who might still work at the old place. Who knows, I might just get lucky....
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