Job Demands for Graduates Exceed Supply, Clark States

Jobs are plentiful this year, according to Alexander Clark, assistant director of the Office of Student Placement, who said yesterday that active job-hunting practically assures positions to graduating seniors.

Engineers, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians have the best opportunities, Clark said, with government and industrial demands far exceeding the supply of trained men. But the market is also excellent for men with liberal arts training, he pointed out.

Some Fields Tight

Positions are abundant in banking, insurance, and the production and sales divisions of manufacturing, Clark said, while the fields of writing and teaching are still hardest to get into.

Colleges are doing little hiring, Clark explained, because of uncertainty over how the draft will affect their enrollments. However, positions are open in many of the smaller teachers colleges, as well as in the field of elementary education.

He said extensive job-hunting is also necessary for positions in publishing, advertising, and writing for radio, television. and motion pictures.

The Office of Student Placement keeps no records on the number of students who have found employment. "Students must be making out all right," Clark explained, "because they rarely come back to the office a second time."