Seminar Abstract
How to Avoid Being Downsized in a Corporation
This seminar is a practical discussion of methods used
to improve the value of a technical professional to
their organization. With many organizations "down-
sizing" and reducing staff through layoffs and
attrition, it is important that management is aware of
the value of individuals.
With staff reductions, even those who love their jobs
are finding themselves forced to search. Of course, the
most successful employer change (job search) is the one
that never has to take place.
The speaker is not affiliated with any recruiter and is
not speaking for his present employer. This seminar is
based on his personal experiences and those of others
who were layed off at the same time.
Topics to be covered include:
- How to remain with your present employer
- Increasing your value to your employer
- Improving your relationship with management
- How to keep your present job during downsizing
- Discovering new opportunities at your employer
- The last resort: Seeking a new job
- Resume preparation
- Discovering Opportunities (networking)
- Use of Recruiters and Brokers (head-hunters)
- Interview techniques and common questions
- Internet resources
General Terminology
- Major Differences Between UNIX and the Mainframe
- Philosophy (many small tools put together to do larger job)
- Interactive (vs. Mainframe batch orientation)
- Handling Files (datasets), Devices, and Locations (filesystems)
- Partitioned Data Sets and UNIX Directories
- Naming Standards
- Connecting to UNIX and Terminal Behavior
- Utilities and Commands
- Getting Help
- General Problem Determination (what does this error message mean)
- Transitional Tools (uni-SPF and SPF-UX: ISPF replacements for UNIX)
- ISPF Dataset List Utility becomes ls and find
- ISPF Browse and Edit becomes vi, view, ex, and ed
- Special attention paid to mimicking ISPF commands in UNIX editors
- ISPF Move/Copy Utility and IEBGENER becomes cp, mv, ln
- ISPF Library and Dataset Utility and IEFBR14 becomes rm,
touch, mkdir, rmdir, and mv
- ISPF Hardcopy Utility and /*ROUTE PRINT becomes lp and lpr
- Also simple redirection of output to files
- ISPF SDSF or IOF becomes ps, who, finger, lpstat
- Batch jobs and scheduling
- Using &, nohup, nice, time, jobs, bg, fg, cron
- Simple Shell Scripting
- Showing Mainframe JCL converted to UNIX shell scripts
- Additional Topics based on available time and attendee interest.
Many of these topics may come up through attendee questions during
the other sections:
- IDCAMS replacement (GDG and VSAM datasets)
- Comparing files
- Searching
- Concatenated Datasets
- Embedded SYSIN
- JOBLIB/STEPLIB replacements - path, which, where, whence, alias
- File Security
- Account Configuration
- Third-party tools (software under UNIX to do things that were
available on the mainframe)
- Data Conversion - ASCII and EBCDIC
- Hardware Comparisons
- Introduction to Networking with TCP/IP
- Advanced Shell Concepts
- Other Sources of Information
- Other UNIX Seminars
- UNIX courses at local colleges
- Other Books
- Magazines
- Internet
The goal of this seminar is to assist the attendee to
remain in their current position, find other
opportunities at their current employer, or as the last
resort, seek a new job.
Parts of this seminar were previously presented by this
speaker at the General Electric Career Continuation
Center for other professionals who were also layed off
by GE.
Prerequisites of Attendees:
This seminar is primarily oriented to those with
professional job experience. However, many topics would
also be helpful to the first-time job seeker.
Focus:
Introductory to Intermediate level, technical.
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