Job opportunities for grads increasing
Editor's Note: This is the second of a series of ar
ticles prepared by Colleges for Oregon’s Future, a
citizen's organization formed in 1964 to contribute to
public understanding and support of post-secondary
education in Oregon.
The unemployed college graduate - so widely
publicized during recent employment slumps - may be
becoming a thing of the past, at least according to
placement directors of public and independent colleges
and universities and community colleges in Oregon.
A typical comment is that of ^Richard Traylor,
placement director at Southern Or*egon College: “I
would say this about the next two years’ employment—I
think it is going to be an improvement over the past two
years.”
“Things are looking up in many fields, particularly
engineering, business, forest products, health
professions, vocational education, computer science and
the agricultural sciences,” according to Louis Edwards,
director of Oregon State University’s Careers Planning
and Placement office. Employers can still be selective,
though, he says, and graduates must put full effort into
job hunting.
Portland State University reports that public ac
counting job opprtunities are up about 17 per cent over
last year. Engineering job offers, in a slump in past
years, are up about 25 per cent. Opportunities in the
business field offer the greatest number of jobs to
students this year. Teaching opportunities are also up
over last year, but the true picture is just now emerging
as the peak of the hiring season is in mid-March.
Verlin Odell, University placement coordinator of
the Career Planning and Placement Service, notes the
oest job opportunities are in accounting and
management training.
Oregon Technical Institute boasts that 97.6 per cent
of 1972 graduates obtained employment and, of those, 98
per cent were employed within their major field of
study.
“I think we’re in for a boomer of a year. We just
closed the books on the biggest February ever since
1967,” says Wilber Bailey, director of placement at Lane
Community College.
Lane County employers are asking the LCC
placement office for auto mechanics with specialties in
transmission or wiring, body and fender men, color TV
technicians and secretaries with training or experience
in the lumber, medical or legal fields, Bailey says.
These statewide figures are in line with the national
trend measured in January by the College Placement
Council, a national nonprofit council which helps with
career planning and placement. The council also an
ticipates that jobs for those with master’s degrees will
be up 22 per cent and Ph.D’s up 20 per cent.
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