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Applications for Govt. Job Exams Due November 13

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Applications for the Junior Management and Junior Professional Assistant programs, which offer careers in the government to college graduates, must be submitted to the Civil Service Commission in Washington, D.C. by November 13 if candidates want to qualify for nation-wide written examinations on December 8.

The Office of Student Placement, which is coordinating the program locally with the Civil Service Commission in Washington, has blanks available for any interested graduate students, or seniors who expect to graduate be June 30, 1952 Applications can also be obtained at any post office.

Those who pass the December exam will also face an interview with government officials before qualifying for the program.

The management assistant program affords students an opening to "careers leading to high-level positions in the federal government." It is intended "for persons with background in public or business administration or the social sciences who are interested in and have aptitude for administrative work."

Students who intend to enter this program must have included in their college studies especially one of the following: political science or government, public or business administration, economics, international relations, industrial management or engineering, sociology, psychology, economic or political geography, history, or social or cultural anthropology.

Start at $3,100

Those men or women who successfully complete their written and oral tests and receive their bachelors' degrees (or better) will be offered positions starting at $3,100 a year in the national government. Among the offices hiring management assistants are the Defense, Commerce, State, Treasury, Interior, Agriculture and Labor Departments and the Bureau of the Budget and the Civil Service Commission.

The second program, for Junior Professional Assistants, offers to qualified college graduates careers as bacteriologists, economists, geographers, geophysicists, social science analysts, and statisticians.

A higher grade of management assistant with annual salary beginning at $3,825 is also open to men who have completed one year of post-graduate work in their field.

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