Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sixth annual Harvard Conference on Careers from February 13 to March 20 was announced by the Office of Student Placement yesterday. The aim of the conference, according to Louis L. Newby, placement officer, is to stimulate the interest of students in different career fields so that they will avail themselves of the placement office's facilities for finding jobs after graduation...
Nine programs, each covering a popular field of post-graduate work, are listed on the placement office's brochure which will be distributed in the next few days to every student and faculty member. Each individual conference will have speeches by three leading experts working in each field, usually with a Harvard official or professor serving as moderator...
Smith writers: "Comparatively few companies can justify conducting interviews with all interested candidates individually. They do not have sufficient personnel requirements to do so." He would like to see two big improvements on the Harvard system; first "the use of standardized student application forms, and second, "an adequate alumni placement service, that can bring an alumnus and his job into focus through personal discussion and re-evaluation of his position ... and thereby assist materially in reducing useless and costly turnover for both the alumnus and the company...
This job contentment appears to be in sharp contrast to what happens at some colleges. For example, Michigan's placement bureau says it has a bigger alumni than undergraduate program. Clark thinks this "raises the suspicion" that a great many of those placed don't like the jobs they got. It also implies they never did enough thinking on job-getting while they were in college, and so have to go back to their old college placement office...
Nobody so far has seriously questioned that most students here need the help the office can give them. As the placement office report for 1946-7 says: "Our early comment on seniors just graduating was that they were often ignorant even of the language of business, and had little useful knowledge of the ways and means of making a living. Consequently the problem of getting a job seems to most of them a complex and difficult...