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Top 5 Ways to Meet Your Mainframe Skills Needs
By: Lauren Valenti, Director, Mainframe Education and Customer Engagement, Broadcom Mainframe Software
Here are five exciting ways to build workforce resiliency as a mainframer of any experience level, or gain skilled talent as an organization:
1. Learn at your own pace
Web-Based TrainingOpens in a new window.Broadcom offers hundreds of courses for individuals of all skill levels. Our web-based training is available at no cost to customers on active maintenance and is designed to help you quickly and easily refresh your skills—all at your own learning pace. You'll also have the opportunity to earn accredited digital badges that you can proudly display on social platforms.
2. Learn from an instructor
Virtual Instructor-Led TrainingOpens in a new window.These courses led by Broadcom subject matter experts offer an interactive training experience and are available at no cost to customers on active maintenance. Our schedule features classes on Endevor, OPS/MVS, Python, ACF2 for z/OS and a wide range of other products. We are continually adding classes to the schedule, so bookmark the site and check back often. Register to save your seat today!
3. New to mainframe: Vitality Program
Vitality Residency ProgramOpens in a new window.Through this highly successful and innovative skills development program, Broadcom partners with organizations to hire, train and mentor the next generation of mainframers. Since its inception in 2019, Broadcom’s Vitality Residency Program has trained, certified and placed hundreds of new mainframe employees with leading companies around the world. This paid program includes a corporate apartment and up to six months of instructor-led training, followed by an additional six months of residency at a customer organization.
4. Know the ecosystem: Mainframe Insights
Mainframe InsightsOpens in a new window.This program keeps you up to date with mainframe ecosystem trends and the enterprise architecture content you care most about, in a short, sharable video format. Quickly and easily stay up to date on the latest mainframe topics, analyst findings and educational resources that will help you grow your business and maximize your ROI.
5. Need skilled talent on-demand? Mainframe Expert Program
Mainframe Expert ProgramOpens in a new window.This program embeds professionals with deep mainframe and Broadcom product experience into your existing ecosystem, allowing you to realize the full value of your technology investments more quickly, support core business strategies and remedy mainframe skills gaps. Your organization gets access to best-in-class talent—trained, certified and employed by Broadcom—ready to work at your direction as a member of your team from day one with minimal onboarding.