Job Office Gives Out Summer Info

So you're looking for a summer job. John W. Holt, director of the Student Employment Bureau, has three suggestions for the prospective vacation-time worker:

1) Start negotiating with the Bureau right now. It's worthless to go down to the Cape, for instance, around May or June hunting for a job.

2) Take an hour off and evaluate yourself in terms of a labor marked. Don't grab something you feel you won't enjoy. Better work is done, and more money generally earned from jobs the workers enjoy. Also, a successful season at a particular place should guarantee re-employment at increased salary.

3) Decide how much money you want to make this summer. A student who wants or needs $400 will require a different approach from the one who needs only $200.

Last summer, 750 undergraduates who registered with the Employment Bureau pocketed $87,459 doing everything from baby sitting to her tending. Biggest single source of each was camp councilling, which neither 76 men $27,677. Resort hotel work, the runnerup, provided 41 students with $15, 245.

Lining up these summer jobs is the duty of Holt's aide. Mrs. Ryan, who directs operations from her Weld Hall office. Actually, the Bureau does not clinch jobs. It acts, rather, as a clearing house, sending out lists in November to most of the New England-New York camps and resort hotels requesting information on employee vacancies.

By February, with most of the lists back. Mrs. Ryan begins taking student applications and arranging for interviews with prospective employers. Receptionist Dorothy Hots, who handles most of the termtime "casual" business like blood donations and baby tending, also helps with the summer program.

Occasionally, students find a goldmine at the Employment Bureau--like the 26 year old engineering major who earned $1800 one summer working as the private secretary of a traveling Maine philanthropist.