Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room of the Student Placement's offices at 52 Dunster Street houses a unique library, which in Crooks' opinion "is the best of its kind offered by any college." This is the Vocational Library containing some 2,500 folders of material on companies and government agencies, collections of occupational studies, about 300 books and directories, and other information essential to the career hunter...
...annual influx of timorous seniors for interviews with representatives of business, finance, and other fields is another one of Student Placement's most worthwhile and important jobs. Every year this program grows and the Office now utilizes six interview rooms instead of the four formerly used...
...process of an interview is a relatively simple one: the student makes an appointment (or preferably several ones) with different companies through Student Placement. He then must fill out a questionnaire, giving his grades, military status, and previous employment data. Both parties then try to sell each other; the company explaining its virtues as a place for a successful career; and the student, by whatever his marks, personality, and interest, may offer. The companies put their first consideration on grades, according to Crooks, for this is their only real basis of judgment in the first meeting...
Taking office time as a basis of judgment, Student Placement's No. 1 job is that of counselling future job-holders. This is simply a process whereby Huntington and Crooks talk with any student who wishes to come into their office and discuss their future plans. These talks usually begin with a discussion of the student's desires, an evaluation of his talents, his immediate future (military service and graduate school), and finally, definite suggestions...
...aren't psychiatrists; what we want to do is to reduce areas of ignorance, both in the student's minds and in our own." He cited three main problems in the minds of those who want counselling: military service, graduate school, and a career. Concerning the first problem, Student Placement feels that it has the best collection of information about the armed services and the draft in the college. "People are just delaying their ideas about the military," Crooks said, "and we feel we can give them the advice they need...