Tips to Find a Job in UK

[lordna]

1977 those were the days what did you program in COBOL ?

my brother was in a similar situation to you, but was made redundant, couldn't find a similar job, started his own IT business , mainly does CCTV stuff these days ..

First job was Fortran, BASIC and Assembler, then did a contract in Munich using COBOL, followed by lots more IBM COBOL, MBASIC, PICK BASIC, IBM COBOL again, UNIX , ORACLE PL/SQL, VSAM, ADABAS NATURAL then some CTI work. You would think someone would be interested!

Just a reminder of how things have changed....my first job was in a college Electrical engineering department (1977) who bought a new PRIME 300 minicomputer. This amazing machine was 64K virtual memory with very large removable hard disc and supported 15 teleprinters, a graph plotter and digitiser. No screens in those days, just printing on paper rolls and programs stored on paper tape!

I went there for a job as an electrical technician but the job was filled already but they offered me a job as a computer technician if i was willing to teach myself programming! How things have changed!

[joebloggs]

First job was Fortran, BASIC and Assembler, then did a contract in Munich using COBOL, followed by lots more IBM COBOL, MBASIC, PICK BASIC, IBM COBOL again, UNIX , ORACLE PL/SQL, VSAM, ADABAS NATURAL then some CTI work. You would think someone would be interested!

Just a reminder of how things have changed....my first job was in a college Electrical engineering department (1977) who bought a new PRIME 300 minicomputer. This amazing machine was 64K virtual memory with very large removable hard disc and supported 15 teleprinters, a graph plotter and digitiser. No screens in those days, just printing on paper rolls and programs stored on paper tape!

Salford college of technology had a Prime many years ago when i went there, it was

well you've definitely have experience and that's something you cant buy...

lordna and Rayna did you ever do any JSP (Jackson structured programming) ??

SQL theory is probably the most boring subject known to man

[raynaputi]

Salford college of technology had a Prime many years ago when i went there, it was

well you've definitely have experience and that's something you cant buy...

lordna and Rayna did you ever do any JSP (Jackson structured programming) ??

SQL theory is probably the most boring subject known to man

I don't really have a lot of programming experience other than COBOL 400. I've had trainings on Java and C++ but I wasn't able to use them coz I was assigned to a COBOL project. I blamed Accenture for that, for not properly designating employees to the right projects! Anyway, my recent work experience mainly involves xPression designs and testing for a US insurance company.