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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1978)
JOBS: Increase in recruiter visits indicates brighter outlook for 1978 graduates By JOHN LUDWIG Of the Emerald The job outlook for 1978 college graduates is improving, says Neil Murray, director of the University's Career Planning and Placement Service (CPPS). "Recent data seems to indicate there is reason for measured op timism for the coming year,” says Murray. “All last year we had a total of 75 recruiters seeking Uni versity graduates, while this year 65 recruiters have contacted us in the fell term alone. This is a dear indication that business is open ing up and doing more hiring.” What do employers look for in a college applicant? Murray says when employers are asked about the positive factors in recent col lege graduates, most indicate they “tend to be more analytical, articulate and intelligent” than the others. Some of the negative aspects of the recent grads were that they showed “impatience, exagger ated job expectations and lack of basic skills.” Murray says employers sug gest that one of the big challenges to students is to be flexible — geographic flexibility being a major factor—and “to realize pos itions are not going to start out at the top.” He advises undergraduates to “get pertinent experience in the field in which they intend to work, prior to graduation." He says this work experience might take the form of work-study, a part-time job or volunteer work. According to a 1977 study by the Oregon Bureau of Labor, Mur ray cites 140 prominent Portland employers who were surveyed as to what majors they preferred to hire. Seventy-one percent preferred business administration majors, 47 percent accounting, 43 percent engineering, 32 percent market ing, 27 percent finance, 22 per cent management and 14 percent liberal arts. These statistics, Murray says, should not discourage liberal arts majors, because, he says, the typ ical liberal arts major was almost as successful in finding a job after graduation as other majors. However, the studies show lib eral arts students do not obtain jobs in their fields, and Murray says these students experience Shang Says: Denim was first used as sailcloth for ships. The name "denim” comes from the town where the cloth was man ufactured — Denima, Italy. The most famous ships to use denim sails were the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria! SHANG DRAPER’S DISCOUNT CLOTHING 539 E. 13th 11 am-5:30 pm DUCK DOLLAR DISCOUNTS Clip It OPE Coupons Begin Monday, February 6 Drawing by Jim Payne the most job dissatisfaction be cause their jobs had little future potential. “Liberal arts majors must look harder and be more creative in their job search,” he advises. The CPPS office, located in Room 246 Susan Campbell Hall, is open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is designed to assist students in planning for and ob taining employment and career in formation. Non-credit workshops in re sume writing, interviewing skills and job search are offered on a weekly basis by the office. CPPS also uses computerized voca tional and educational information gathered by the Career Informa tion Systems office. CIS computer helps students ‘plug-in’ on career information Computer-based Career Infor mation Systems (CIS) provides students with detailed information on more than 241 occupational categories, representing 95 per cent of the employment in Oregon, according to CIS editor CIS editor Bill Korns. The CIS office, located in 247 Hendricks carries data on what schools are best for particular fields of study, costs and applica tion deadlines, in addition to oc cupational information. In cooperation with the Oregon State Scholarship Commission, CIS has recently adopted a pilot program to inform students of fi nancial, aid offered at a given in stitution before applying for ad mission. Right now students must go through the admission process before financial aid information can be obtained. “Since 1969 (when it was or ganized) Oregon CIS has become a source of training and assis tance to other states,” Kom says. Ninety-five percent of the operating cost of CIS, which runs at $250,000 per year, comes from client institutions such as high schools, junior colleges and social service institutions. As a result of this, "there is no direct cost to indi victuals using the system," Korns says. “The potential for a national network throughout the country would be great,” he says. “Under such a system students would be able to plug in to updated career and educational information any where in the country.” DA notes increase in consumer fraud Increased awareness by the public led to the expansion of the Consumer Fraud Division in 1977, said Pat Horton, Lane County Dis trict Attorney. During a news conference Thursday morning at the Lane County Courthouse, Horton said in 1977 were more than 500 in quiries and complaints about faulty products and deceptive trade practices. “The reason is better aware ness in Lane County by the people of the 0.A.‘s office, their rights and the Better Business Bureau,” Hor ton said. GIGANTIC SLEEPING BAG SALE OREGON WILDERNESS SUPPLY IN THE E.M.U. _ X 3088 The White Collar Crime Unit ..so works for consumer protec tion. It deals mostly with criminal violations, while the Consumer Fraud Division deals with civil vio lations. A large part of the division’s work is consumer education. Hor ton named high school and senior communities as “groups most fre quently preyed upon as first time consumers." There is no antagonism bet ween the division and the busi ness community, said Horton. “The biggest supporters our divi sion has is the established busi ness community in Lane County," he said. “Tit’s the fly-by-nighters we have the biggest problem with.”
