Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call that placement," says Teele, "then perhaps we can claim to place everybody...
...then, Clark asks, should the placement office have to tell students what jobs to take or not to take. "It all boils down," he says, "to whether you believe in the 'directive' or 'non-directive' approach...
Many critics think this "self-service" counselling demands too much of the student. They feel a placement office should size up a man, tell him into what work he should go, and then end up finding...
Students, themselves, write in many irate letters to complain that the office puts too little emphasis on specific placement. One student sent such a letter last September. He charged that the office was over-staffed--it has four graduates of girls' college, in addition to Clark--and its methods were useless. He came in later, however, and after working for two months with the same methods, landed a 'plum...
Many employers are dubious too. J.E. Smith, employment manager for the Armstrong Cork Company of Lancaster, Penn, is one. Basically, he thinks that college placement offices like Harvard's, make recruiting for companies impractical...