Word: placement
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...Pretty much across the board things have been pretty dismal for the last three years," says Margaret L. New house, assistant director of the Office of Career Services (OCS) for graduate student placement. "A new Ph.D. has to be pretty lucky to get a tenure-track position that they really want...
...astonished to discover that he's just the man the proprietor is looking for. Wayne (J.T. Walsh) needs somebody to bump off his wife. As it turns out, Wayne is just a little too eager to fill this vacancy, for he violates the most basic rule of personnel placement: always check a prospective employee's references...
What can be done? The Administration's emphasis, says Tyson, is on improving "the quantity and quality of jobs." Clinton, in a speech last week, mentioned one approach: overhauling the unemployment-compensation system so that anyone registering will be offered retraining and placement assistance, not just money. That is precisely the kind of initiative, however, that has been starved for funds as the Administration and Congress struggle to reduce the budget deficit...
...took nearly a decade of steadily plummeting returns before the University finally ousted Meyer's predecessor, Walter M. Cabot '55. And it's why many of Cabot's top henchmen, including Scott M. Sperling and Michael Eisenson--the managers of HMC's high-risk, high-gain private placement portfolio--continue to work at HMC, earning stratospheric salaries, despite their lackluster performance. Sperling and Eisenson achieved fame several years ago for becoming the first HMC officials to top the $1 million compensation barrier, just two years before the University marked down the value of their portfolio by about $200 million, roughly...
Stanford Business School took first place in the survey, which was based on a combination of four categories: student selectively, placement success, graduation rate and reputation...