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Friday, January 25, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Placement Directors Optimistic About Job Market
Rv NANCY SMITH
Kansan Staff Reporter
Job placement directors on campus are optimistic that spring graduates who actively seek employment will find it; despite rising unemployment.
Recruiting from the class of 1974 has begun, most placement directors reported this week, and February is expected to be the peak month. Few directors reported inadequacies in the number of firm interviews and information on graduates.
Business students begin job interviews Feb. 1, according to Mildred Young, placement director for the School of Business.
Ninety companies are sending representatives, about seven per cent more overseas.
Young said she thought salaries would remain about the same as last year when accounting majors with bachelor's degrees averaged $855 a month on new jobs, and general business majors earned an average of $734 a month.
SPRING ENGINEERING graduates
begins interviews with prospective em-
players Monday, Georgianna Kleiss,
accountant for the School of
Engineering, and
Seventy-two companies have been scheduled to conduct interviews, with new employees.
Results of a School of Engineering survey of last year's graduating class showed the following:
Few firms have arranged to interview graduating seniors from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, according to Clodys Padget, placement director for the
"It's up to the student to get out and really look," she said.
FIVE OR SIX YEARS ago, companies came on campus and were very interested in talking to students, Padget said, but today's job market has reversed that.
Heroid Regier, director of the Educational Placement Bureau in Bailey Hall, predicted job prospects for teachers would be a little better than a year ago.
Toppin the list of critical fields are specialists in learning disabilities and reading and general special education, secondary mathematics, physical science
and industrial arts teachers, Regier said.
Social studies, English and elementary school teachers probably will have a tough time finding jobs, he predicted, if they have geographic limitations.
SPRING IS THE slack time for recruiting in the School of Law Vera Byaska, placement director for the Law School, reported. She said she thought that the market was fairly tight for young lawyers, but that jobs were available.
Interviews with law students indicated most preferred to work in small law firms where they could get a variety of experience, Bylaska said. However, many of the job offers were from corporations and accounting firms.
Edith Black, assistant to the dean of the School of Social Welfare, said the school
expected its students would find jobs, but
the students were going to have to look a
lot of other jobs.
A how-to-job-seminar is planned to be School of Society, Welfare graduates in biohacking.
School of Architecture and Urban Design students should have no trouble finding jobs in the opinion of William M. Lucas, associate dean of the school.
MONTHLY SALARIES last year ranged from about $800 for positions in small architectural offices in mid-Kansas towns, to approximately large architectural firms in Kansas City.
Pharmacy graduates have a "good" chance of finding jobs after graduation, said Hugh Cotton, dean of the School of Pharmacy at UNC Chapel Hill. The only problem students will encounter.
Most pharmacy seniors go job hunting on their own, Cotton said, although Eli Lilly Company and a few other big pharmaceutical firms will conduct on-campus
Dana Leibengood, coordinator of placement for the School of Journalism, is a member.
"My impression is that the job market is still fairly open," he said.
About 30 on-campus interviews are
conducted for spring graduates, but much of the job placement is handled through personal letters. Leibengood said the faculty also helped graduate find jobs.
Many journalism graduates go to work on newspapers with small staffs. The average weekly salary is about $145, according to Leibengo.
There is no employment placement program for graduates of the School of Fine Arts.
announcing the Creative Writing Contest Two Categories: Short Fiction and Poetry Entry Blanks and Rules Are Available at the SUA Office
Entries May Be Submitted Feb. 1-25, 1974
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