Word: recruiters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women are among the new "policepersons" Chafin plans to recruit. The department does not presently have any women within its officer corps. In addition, the police department will require not only written, oral and physical examinations for new candidates, but will add a psychological examination administered by a qualified psychologist...
Harvard does recruit minority applicants, largely by sending minority students into high schools, public and private, to encourage those who have strong qualifications to apply. Students and administrators who do recruiting work are aided by Search Lists which have the names of many promising students (based on test scores) distributed by Educational Testing Services...
...fled to Hollywood where for more than a decade he alternately amused and terrorized studio heads. When talkies came in, he was assigned to recruit writers. The cronies he brought from New York largely established the funny, irreverent film style of the '30s. He wrote or collaborated on a score of scripts and had an uncredited influence on the structure and content of many other major films. But Hollywood also evoked the worst in him. During the Depression, Mankiewicz and his colleagues were earning $1,250 a week. Mank gambled it away, with as much disdain...
...firms report that their shift to suburbia has also made it easier to recruit executives from other parts of the country. Champion International relocated in Stamford (pop. 108,000) partly because it wanted to bring in managers from Cincinnati and St. Paul, Minn., and found that many resisted a move to New York. Similarly, Union Carbide Executive James C. Rowland cites "Middle America attitudes" about city problems as a reason for that company's move to Danbury (pop. 60,000). Says he: "We think Danbury will always be more like the area that we are recruiting people from...
...newly graduated engineer with a bachelor's degree can expect a starting salary of $16,000, plus sign-up bonus. Engineers with ten years or more experience in virtually any facet of electronics can fetch $50,000. Additional perks often include payments for the selling costs on the recruit's old home and closing costs on the new home, free lodging while house hunting, conferences with tax specialists (in hopes of setting up tax shelters) and membership in a country club...