Word: placement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Weller '29, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and played House football in 1946, will give the inside dopes on journalism careers tonight when he and four other newspapermen open the Student Placement Office's first conference for job hunting students...
...market. Fortune gloomily noted that the demand for Harvard Business School graduates is so great that most of them are in an unprecedently powerful bargaining position, but it gleefully anticipated a coming day when once again employers can be choosy and stingy. Meanwhile, the Office of Student Placement announced a series of twelve symposiums in which the various careers open to graduating seniors will be discussed. Fortune Magazine has indicated what the plight of such specifically-trained persons as Business School graduates may soon be. The corresponding fate of the liberally educated but, for the most part, vaguely prepared college...
...simple logic of this approach, admitting the success of the venture thus far, the thoughtful undergraduate might well wonder what his chances for a job will be in 1951 under such a system. Other schools--among which Yale is an out-standing example--lay much more emphasis on placement and much less on discovering aptitudes and inclinations. In a time when jobs are scarce, the Yale man who has been told precisely where his best chances lie is likely to have a distinct advantage over the Harvard man who has been told that he would make a good banker...
While it is unfair to condemn the Placement Service because it may not perform its work at some future date, a general expansion of its activities could increase its efficiency today, and guarantee it against the threat of the future. Information now on file in the Registrar's Office, the Office of Student Testing, and Hygiene Department, if collected and kept on file in the Placement Office, would enable the job counselor to have before him at once the medical, educational, social and economic background of any student seeking aid. At the same time, close contact with firms ready...
...placement Office, founded in 1945 when the number of students requests for help in finding jobs grew extremely large, has a file of more than 240 industrial and professional leaders who might offer jobs to students. The big problem facing director John W. Teale and his assistant is finding places in smaller groups, for only the big corporations can offer training programs...