Word: placement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seniors and others who will graduate in June are encouraged to register at the Alumni Placement Service at their earliest convenience...
Following a recommendation made last year by the Committee on Employment of the Student Council, A. L. Putnam '20 was appointed Consultant on Careers to cooperate with the Alumni Placement Office, at Wadsworth House, and the Student Employment Office, at University Hall. The position was created in order to conduct research of various post-college careers and to investigate the general problem of aiding undergraduates in their choosing of an occupation for which they are fitted...
...questionnaire which recently was sent to all members of the Senior class was the beginning of an investigation of the immediate needs of Harvard men. Using as a basis the type of impersonal information gained for the Alumni Placement Service through the questionnaire. Putnam will study the problems of the individual by means of personal interviews...
...creation of the office of Consultant on Careers is the logical answer to the Student Council's recommendation made last year for a through research into the whole field of post-graduate employment. While the new bureau is an expansion of the already existing Alumni Placement and Student Employment offices, more emphasis will be laid on the problem of placing the graduate in a position for which he is suited and prepared...
...recent report on Harvard men in the business world found that approximately 2000 alumni were either unemployed or dissatisfied with their positions. Although the fault cannot be strictly applied to the present system of graduate placement, still that system is so limited that only a definite number of positions are open to each applicant and he must take what is offered regardless of his own personal fitness or the position's appeal...