Word: placements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following article, written by Donald H. Moyer '27, Assistant Director of Alumni Placement, is the second of a series of articles on "The Alumni Placement of Seniors", entitled "When and how Seniors are placed in business industry...
...Senior seeking an opening in business or industry these are roughly four channels of approach: (1) The industrial representative or recruiter who comes to the Placement Office. (2) The employer who asks the Placement Office to submit candidates for a job. (3) Friends and relatives who are either employers or have influence with them. (4) The employer who has not solicited applicants but who may be appealed to by an aggressive, well-planned approach. In order of their relative importance to the average Senior these sources of employment should be ranked in exactly the inverse order. The truly ambitious...
...During the late winter and early spring a familiar figure in college placement offices is the industrial recruiter, whose task is to select young men for apprenticeship jobs in the various departments of his company. Usually he represents the larger corporations, and may come from a city a thousand miles away. Harvard is ordinarily but one stop in his itinerary which often includes as many as twenty or more colleges. He is here for a day or so and may interview as many as twenty-five students, some of whom may receive offers of employment from the company several weeks...
...Alumni Placement Office is frequently asked by local employers to submit Senior applicants for jobs. Here the competition is somewhat less, and because the interview takes place in the company offices the role of aggressor is somewhat easier to play, and is often attended with better success...
...Alumni Placement Office welcomes all Seniors or underclassmen who wish to discuss their interest in business employment. To be sure the Office can be of little help to the man who is unwilling to take strenuous measures to help himself, but to those men who are prepared to act on the sincere desire to find a place for themselves in the business world it can offer full cooperation and render much assistance