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Teele thinks much of this statistics' argument is 'hocus-pocus.' "How can you always tell whether a placement office has put the man in the job or not?" he asks. By way of demonstrating his point, he tells the story of a student whom he once referred for a job to the "Boston Herald." The "Herald" interviewer sent him to a friend at the "Boston Globe." The "Globe" man thought the student had great potentialities and tried to find him a job with a publisher. The publisher had no openings, but remembered a friend on another Boston paper. This...
...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...