Word: senior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undergraduates frequently have the mistaken impression that the employment of Seniors in business and industry is confined to the months of May and June. It is true that many Seniors are accepted for employment during these months, but the actual search for a job begins weeks or even months before. In general the season for Senior employment is from February until May of the Senior year. Some men may be "signed up" as much as a year before they go to work, bit one to four months represents the average interval between the acceptance of an offer and reporting...
...personal ties and placed on a purely business basis. The applicant determines the market for his services within a fairly narrow scope and sells to that market by sustained and systematic effort until he gets his job. This channel of approach should form the back log of any Senior's campaign to establish himself in the business world...
...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...
Although the industrial recruiter is in a sense the aggressor, the Senior's role is hardly a passive one. The employer's market for apprentices is wide and large, and he comes perhaps to select only one or two men from Harvard. Opportunities from the large corporations are therefore placed on a highly competitive basis and the Senior who compete for an offer must make fully as aggressive and convincing an approach to the recruiter as he would make to any other employer. In this type of employment a Senior subjects himself to the keenest possible competition and his chances...
...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...