Word: placement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over 250 alumni have offered their services as career advisers to University men graduating this year, Donald S. Bradshaw '44, assistant director of Student Placement, disclosed yesterday...
Students interested in meting with one of the alumni advisers during Christmas vacation are urged to register now for appointments at Student Placement's Weld Hall office...
...alumni advising program was instituted by the Placement Office in 1946 in order to supplement the Office's job information service for graduating students. At that time there were only about 60 alumni who participated in the program and most of these were in the Boston area...
...push button" case, happily for Harvard, is the exception and not the rule. Placement figures have always been high, and if anyone regrets the existence of the Business School it's probably the firms that can't offer high enough salaries to attract the Harvard men into their organizations. Most banks and accounting firms can't afford starting salaries much over $250 per month, while the average company operating through the School's Placement Office these days is offering from $250 up to $350 a month as a starter...
Eight-nine percent of the Class of 1949 has already landed jobs, although only about a third of the positions were secured through the Placement Office. A total of 215 firms sought Business School men through the office last year, but placement directors claim that "things look a bit tougher for this year...