Word: placement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There will very likely be no unemployment in store for this year's crop of Harvard graduates." This cheering forecast comes from John W. Teele '27, who as Director of the Office of Student Placement is better qualified than most to make such predictions...
Basically, the Placement Office is a combination of clearing house and guidance center. Its primary task is to reconcile the requirements of interested employers with the inclinations and aptitudes of job-hunting students. This task is frequently complicated by the applicant's ignorance of his own interests and abilities, in which case Teele will step in as vocational counselor...
...large proportion of applicants typically express an interest in the over-popular fields of journalism, publishing, personnel work, advertising, and the "export-import business." This aggravates the placement problem, for the majority of job offerings tend more toward scientific pursuits. Insurance and merchandising also offer many good opportunities...
...Placement tests in French, German, and Spanish will be held at 4:30 o'clock in New Lecture Hall next Friday, the University announced yesterday...
...guidance talks, which have included discussions of teaching, business, and medicine as vocations, are designed by the placement office as an aid to the College man in making up his mind what studies to pursue...