Through its Share user group and ZNextGen young programmers organization, IBM has been working to make high school students more aware of the existence of mainframe systems and the career opportunities therein.

While recruiting at the college level is not new to IBM, <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Careers/IBM-Tapping-Teens-for-Mainframe-Careers/?kc=EWKNLEND020808STR2">recruiting teenagers is a new approach</A> embraced after the company identified what it considered an information gap at the younger age group.