UPI Interviews Placement Directors
Editor'! Not - Evtry
year, collega graduation
tima signals lha start of a
massive talent hunt by bus
iness and industry for
bright young men and
women. For many students,
the talent hunt was over
and their new job assured
long before graduation. For
many others, it is still in
progress. United Press In
ternational reporters
throughout the country in
terviewed college place
ment directors to discover
the state of the collegiate
job market. This is their
report.
By DAVID SMOTHERS
This year, the job-hunting
college graduate might do
himself a favor by shifting
President Kennedy's words
around a little and telling
himself:
"Think not what the com
pany can do for you but what
you can do for the company."
The chances are good that
the graduate who steps out
into the world in this frame
of mind will wind up with a
better Job, better pay, and a
better future.
In the month before gradua
tion, UPI reporters interview
ed university and college
placement directors through
out the country.
The findings were almost
universally optimistic. Start
ing salaries for qualified col
lege graduates were generally
up - from 2 to 7 per cent
Talent scouts from industry
and government had been
thick as flics on the campuses
Seme schools said they would
be surprised if one of their
better pupils failed to take
home $600 or thereabouts
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after his first month on the i
job.
As In recent years, the stu
dents who had specialized in
chemical or electrical en
gineering were off to flying
starts on their new careers.
Graduates with training in
accounting were considered
increasingly hot prospects.
Industry Enthusiastic
Most universities reported
that industry representatives
were more enthusiastic than
ever in going after the bright
er boys. But a few college of
ficials noted a difference this
year. Business, they reported,
was getting a little picky. And
the more alert graduates
knew it.
Charles J. Marino. Director
of Placement and Personnel
at St. Louis university, was
the most emphatic.
"The number of companies
that visited the campus this
year was incrc: scd over last
year," he s.id. "However,
they were exceptionally se
lective in the type of graduate
they were looking for."
It used to be, Marino said,
that the typical college grad
uate was1 most Interested in
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what a prospective employer
could promise in the way of
retirement and other fringe
benefits.
This year, Marino said: "I
think I've noticed a great
deal of seriousness on a
graduate's part. They are
very, very serious as to how
they can progress in industry.
"The graduate asks him
self 'what can I do for the
company?' He asks If I do
this what will be the result'?"
"Industry likes this atti
tude," Marino said.
By comparative standards,
St. Louis is a small university
and perhaps its experience is
not typical of the nation's
big educational factories.
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university. Vet Robert Calvert
Jr., manager of the Student
and Alumni Placement Cen
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after master's and doctor'i de
grees and more employers
are hunting for the students
who get those degrees.
Calvert boiled it down to
statistics. In 1940, he said, 3
million persons had college
bachelor's degrees. Now he
said, 8.6 million persons have
them. The conclusion, Calvert
said, if that a mere bachelor's
degree is of less value on the
job market.
Other Trends
The college placement di
rectors noted other new
trends in this year's job re
cruiting. They included:
-The . emergence of, big
government as a bidder for
college talent.
The University of Portland
said the government had been
offering jobs in the engine
ering and science fields. At
the University of California
at Los Angeles, the federal
government was able to offer
the few overseas "glamor"
jobs going.
-Competition by middle
sized businesses for top col
lege graduates.
W. H. Cato, Placement Di-
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rector at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, credited most of a
23 per cent jump In recruiters
to "more middle sized com
panies getting further from
home in recruiting, a field
once left mainly to the larger
companies." Donald La bos-
key, Placement Director at
UCLA, said "recruiting is at
an all-time high and this year
is being extended into med
ium and small industries who
are now attempting to get
their share of graduates."
-A heightened search for
graduates with training in ac
counting. VPI's Cato called the de
mand for qualified account
ants "critical." Fifteen schools
in the New York metropolitan
area listed accounting as one
of the major fields in high
demand and Northwestern
university said it didn't have
enough good accountants to
meet industry demands.
'Golden Boys'
Graduates in the sciences
and technical fields remained
the golden boys of the col
lege job market. However,
the students who didn't have
to worry about getting on a
payroll most often had de
grees in electrical and chemi
cal engineering, mathematics,
aerospace, applied science,
biology and chemistry.
At Georgia Tech, where all
1,179 graduates had technical
training, Placement Director
Neil DeRosa said: "Grad
uates have never come into
a market where their serv
ices were bid for at such a
competitive pace. Our boys
and that means every one of
them-have been sewed up
and sold out for at least
three months."
' At the University of Port
la n d, engineering school
graduates usually had several
job offers and the recruitment
rush was described as "a
traffic jam." Placement Di
rector Frank Endicott of
Northwestern estimated de
mand for engineers and tech
nical experts was up 25 per
cent.
Business administration
graduates' rated second in
popularity, teachers were in
increasing demand, and liber
al arts graduates had the
toughest time after gradua
tion. At St. Louis university,
college officials urged their
liberal arts graduates to take
a graduate course in business
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to make themselves more at
tractive to the talent hunters.
'This seems particulary ap
pealing to businesses," Place
ment Director Marino said.
"They like this combination
and more particularly the
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gineering with a Master's de
gree in Business Administra
tion." Grades Important -.
Most of the placement di
rectors agreed that the college
students with the best marks
got the best jobs.
Leo A. Eason Placement
Director at Washington uni
versity in St. Louis and Pres
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ident of the National Institute
of Teacher Placement associa
tions, said "the good college
student doesn't have any
problem."
"It's the student tt the bot
tom of the class that you have
to worry about," Eason said.
"Often his lesser grades are
based on the fact that the
student had to work and he
becomes a problem placement-wise.
"This is a hard thing t
explain to big industries
that people with B or less
averages are just as good or
better than those with high
grades."
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