Re:Shortage of COBOL developers in insurance and banks
by kqr on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @08:17AM
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Wait, really? I briefly looked at Cobol job ads in Sweden (just for fun to see what's out there -- not actually looking for a Cobol job right now) recently and they were all looking for people with multiple years of production Cobol maintenance. I must have missed something obvious.
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Re:Shortage of COBOL developers in insurance and banks
by dagw on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @08:25AM
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https://sebgroup.com/sv/karriar/vem-ar-du/nyexaminerade-och-...
Only formal requirement to apply is some professional development experience or a degree in something programming related.
Re:Shortage of COBOL developers in insurance and banks
by lemerou on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @01:49PM
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Other requirement is "Proficient in Swedish and English, verbal and written"!
Re:Shortage of COBOL developers in insurance and banks
by TMWNN on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @03:37PM
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Heck, that's more than what it takes to receive Swedish citizenship, for which Sweden has no language, income, employment, or skills requirement. <https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/...>
In completely unrelated news, Arabic is now the second most spoken language in Sweden. <https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/tribune/article_po...>
Re:Shortage of COBOL developers in insurance and banks
by kqr on Thursday May 25, 2023 @12:44AM
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Ignoring English seems a little silly. Doesn't modern standard Arabic function as a lingua franca between people who natively speak something else (even if mutually unintelligible local Arabics)? That would explain it's popularity, but on those grounds English would be even more popular.