PLACEMENT OFFICE WILL HOLD MEETING TO GIVE SENIORS INFORMATION ABOUT SECURING JOBS

The Placement Office holds a meeting this afternoon in Sever 11 at 3:30 to give an opportunity for Seniors interested in business and industrial placement after graduation to discuss and ask questions about the facilities and operation of the Office as an aid to their job problems.

Although the Placement Office and its services are open to all undergraduates of the University, its primary purpose is to place Seniors in business and industrial employment. Fifty percent of the graduating class will go to work next summer, and it is in their interest that the office will work most of the academic year.

Harvard College does not hold itself responsible for the placement of the alumni nor does it promise any undergraduate a job. The Placement Office gives help on how to choose and hunt a job and, secondly, brings together whenever possible employers seeking graduates and Seniors seeking employment.

Assists Any Undergraduate

The Office exists to help any undergraduate make effective his efforts to find employment through intelligent planning, proper information, and a full appreciation of his problem. Everyone's employment problem, however, is his own responsibility and is unique according to his circumstances. The student who realizes this will receive the most effective help from the Placement Office.

Upon registration for placement the student discloses his employment problem, and in subsequent interviews a course of action is agreed upon. Since for effective action the Placement Office and the student must each know what the other plans to do at all times, students should discuss their employment efforts frequently during the year.

Employees Sought Early

Every undergraduate seeking a job should know, at the latest by January of his Senior year, what he plans to do about it. Companies begin seeking recruits as early as January and a Senior whose mind is not made up by this time may miss valuable contacts.

Much can be accomplished at Christmas time by a Senior who by that time has made up his mind, especially if he lives at some distance from Cambridge and plans to work there. For these Seniors the Placement Office maintains alumni committees, in large cities of the middle west and central Atlantic States, who arrange to meet them provided they are sure of the kind of job they want. Registrants from New York City and vicinity may be referred to a branch of this Office at the New York Harvard Club.

Although most employment interviews are held in the company's offices, some employers, notably the larger corporations, annually send a representative to the College to interview Seniors. These recruiters travel from college to college to select outstanding candidates for their particular employment opportunities.

Since, of the 4500 students one such recruiter interviews he selects less than a hundred, any student must realize that his chances for employment in such large corporations are small, and that his main opportunity will lie among the thousands of smaller business concerns which do most of the Nation's business.

The Placement Office records show that the student who is interviewed in the employer's office in the small company stands a far greater chance of employment than when he is interviewed by a visiting recruiter from a big corporation.

From January on, the Placement Office will entertain recruiters and otherwise receive job orders for Seniors. Each employer will specify requirements for the men he wants to hire and the Office will select for interviews those students only who best meet the specifications.

The Placement Office is thus called upon to serve two parties, and each one in the interest of the other. For the individual student, the Office tries to fulfill these obligations with understanding and discretion.