Word: placement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following article is the fourth in a series of seven dealing with the University's Alumni Placement Office which will appear during January...
Some Seniors are able to step directly into a family business or to accept employment under the auspices of friends or relatives when they graduate. Lest these men fool that because they are fortunate enough to have jobs waiting for them they are unwelcome at the Alumni Placement Office, we hasten to assure them that the facilities of this Office are as much at their command as for other students...
...guess right, sometimes wrong; the chances are about even that the issue will be a satisfactory one, that they will stay placed and find their work congenial. It is principally to these men who are tempted to step blindly into jobs tendered by friends and relatives that the Alumni Placement Office would utter a word of caution and ex- tend what assistance...
...employers who come to the Placement Office are looking for graduates to train for responsible positions two, five, ten years hence, not men to fill specific jobs where they will be immediately productive. Here, then, is not a chance for the man who wants temporary work...
Should he accept employment in a training course of this sort, concealing his actual purpose of remaining only for a short time, he would not only render an injustice to his employer but might open a breach between the Placement Office and the employer which would jeopardize the opportunities for other students...