University Daily Kansan
Friday, September 22, 1978
Business grads face healthy job markets
By JAKE THOMPSON
Staff Reporter
Business majors and other KU students who will be interviewing with companies this fail should be reassured by a strong 1979 job market, Frederick Madaus, placement director for the KU School of Business, said yesterday.
"All the literature indicates the business market will be good again this year," he said. "If you're willing to be flexible about your pursuing, then the market is very good."
Madaus said company reports and studies had received showed that there was going to be a slight nation-wide increase in the number of people hired next year.
Professional accounting, petroleum, insurance, automotive and health care companies will have representatives on call to fail interview prospective employees.
One student who will be interviewing with companies on the KU campus this fall, Paul Brenner, Hutchinson senior, said he would interview with about 15 companies. He has written letters and sent resumes to several companies he especially wants to see.
Preparation for the interview included reading available information about companies who will conduct interviews and trying to relax, Brenner said.
"I try to get as relaxed as I can so I present myself as best as possible," he said.
"I also try to anticipate the questions they ask."
Interviewing, for some students, is a familiar process because of past experience and special lectures given by incoming students. Dr. Moehring, Kingman senior, said his experience securing a summer internship with an侵袭 firm last summer gave him an edge.
"I had an advantage by starting early," he said. "I spent time interviewing others about the project."
Madaus said the number of interviews conducted on campus was up from about 2,000 four years ago to around 4,000 now. He added it is due to more concern by students with business.
"In the late 80s and early 70s it was not neat to have business jobs, but that has been a problem."
have professional jobs with, say, accounting firms.
Four years ago, 51 of 144 graduate who reports a business school placement office, became a professional by professional companies. Last year 188 of 241 students who returned placement internships received their degree.
Madaus said he expected more than 160 professional companies to interview on campus and interviewers would ask for "hard credentials."
"A recruiter is a pretty narrow-minded individual and will look at the hard facts because they can sell them easier to the managers." he said.
He said that students who had accounting, computer science and sales background, who have little or no experience probably would find a job. Students emphasizing other areas, such as marketing, personnel, or liberal arts concentrations, are likely to rely more on the personal interviews.
**Recruiters will consider almost anyone, but you'd better come off really well in the job.**
Madaus said that from an economic
standpoint, an emphasis in liberal arts would not make a student more marketable. He said the School of Business had been taken care of by people like those courses for personal development.
It also would help a student get into graduate school, he said.
Madaus said that the liberal arts empaasia definitely could help students applying for jobs outside the technical application industry, engineering, banking and insurance jobs.
"Liberal arts is a personal growth aspect, 'but is there anything wrong with a garbage man who appreciates Shakespeare?' he asked. "For the general market, that won't be as valuable, they would do better to study more math, computer science and accounting."
The number of business students going into graduate school has dropped during the past year, and reporting graduates to 17 percent of last year's students who sent placement reports to admissions offices.
More than 75 percent of the business graduates who went to graduate school were from public schools.
Game to highlight Parents Day
15y LORI LINENBERGER
Staff Reporter
Many University of Kansas students will play host to their parents this weekend as the University once again holds Parents Day, an annual tradition at KU.
Jon Myers, Parents Day coordinator,
said yesterday that he expected a lot of
children to return on the day.
date of the event had caused difficulties in mail invitations to parents.
"Because it is very, very early this year, we've had this kind of a problem," he said. "We're hoping that the students will help the parents and encourage them to come."
The highlight of the weekend be the KU-UC1 football game, but parents also
are urged to attend activities scheduled before the game tomorrow, Myers said.
"We hope we have lots of parents down in and chat with KU faculty, and staff at least once a week."
Activities begin at 8:30 to morning mornings for all band members and their parents at a
Students and parents are invited to a
Legal survey to begin Sunday
University of Kansas students soon will be asked what legal services they use in the patient.
The final draft of the student legal services pall was decided last night by the Loyalty Board.
- Have you ever had a problem that needed legal advice?
Mark Beam-Ward, chairman of the governing board, said the poll would include
The poll will be initiated Sunday by the Student Senate Communications Committee, Rob Boca, board member, said, seeking responses from about 375 students.
Rocha said the poll was designed to see where students had gone in the past for legal services and whether they had needed legal assistance, but had not got one at attorney.
- What was the matter about?
- Did you see an altercation?
- Who did you contact—parents' attorney, local attorney, Legal Aid Society, others?*
Beam-Ward said the poll also would indicate how many students had used the Legal Aid Society and whether a student would program would duplicate those services.
The poll will help the governing board decide what services the legal program should include. The program is scheduled to begin in January 1979.
He said Martin Dickinson, dean of the
- How much did it cost you?
the report, released June 22, the two and a-half-year-old plastic main was unrestrained and had contracted three and a half inches because of cold weather.
"Mike told me that Dykes would make a decision on what type of legal services we'll have very soon after we get this letter in to him," he said.
School of Law, had shown some concern about a possible conflict between the two
Staff Reporter
Additional lawsuits filed over Pier 1 explosion, fire
Beard-Wam said that Mike Harper, student body president, had told him that Dykes wanted some information about the board.
By BILL HIGGINS
Both suits ask for damages in excess of $60,000.
The board also discussed a letter to be sent to Chattanooga Army College and accomplished.
Two lawsuits relating to an explosion and fire that destroyed the Pier 1 Imports building and killed two men last December in the middle day in the Douglas County District Court.
Du Pont manufactured the plastic pipe and Dresser was the distributor of the
Beam-Ward said the letter was to tell the students not to be disappointed. Beam-Ward said he thought recent law school education, not necessarily from the University, could be hired for
Three lawsuits now have been submitted in connection with the incident. All three suits ask for more than $50,000 in damages. The defendants in each of the suits are the
The suits, filed Wednesday, were sub-
mitted by Jeffrey Robert, Janet and Brett Schroeder, and by the owners and operators of the former Pier 1 store, Edgar Dear Kaneher and Helen C.
The two men who were killed in the fire last dec. 15, J. Gordon Moorman and Michael M. Colley, both 30, lived in apartments above the Pier 1 store.
The Public Service Company was cited in a report by the National Transportation Safety Board for design, install, test, inspect and anchor the installation of a 394-foot long polyethylene plastic gas main that had been inserted in a casing and connected to a steel gas main in the building.
The three suits list the Kansas Public Service Company Inc., E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc., and Dresser Industries as defendants.
The destroyed property at 747
Dearer Road was purchased this
summer by Dale Kearney.
William Salome, vice president and general manager of the Kansas Public Service Co., said his company had received the Colley suit petition Wednesday afternoon and the suit had been given to company lawyers.
The Kansas Public Service Company is a retail distributor of natural gas in Kansas
The suit filed by the Schroeder requested a jury trial and was submitted for then by James L. Johnson. He was represented by Emerson, Six, Springer and Zinn, a Lawrence law firm, and by James L.
Winton A. Winter Jr., an attorney with the Lawrence firm of Stevens, Brand, Lungstrum, Golden and Winter, submitted the suit for the Kearnys.
"But if we go to schools other than KU to look for an attorney, then students and others will be saying, 'Hey, why don't we know KU?' own backyard who knew KU?" he said.
Winter also filed the suit for Colley's parents on Sept. 13.
Craig Heilsman, Wichita junior, said Harper had told him that he thought only one attorney would be needed for the first semester of the program.
"Mike also told me that he thought there would be some space opening up in the Union to house our office," Heelsar said. "He spoke about consumer affairs moving out."
chemistry reception at a.m. in Maliott Hall Tours of the department will be given.
But Beam-Ward said that the consumer affairs office would be too small.
"Mike had told me," he said, "that there really was nothing he could do for us about the space until after we got this letter to Dykes."
An informal reception will be held on the main level of the Kansas Union at 10 a.m. for all parents and students. Coffee and rolls will be served.
after the reception, parents and students may tour Memorial Stadium. Those interested in taking a tour should meet at the southeast corner of the stadium at 10:30
Students living in one of KU's eight residence halls may treat their families to a free picnic-type lunch served in the hall cafeterias beginning at 10:45.
A luncheon for band members and their families will be in Murphy's band rehearsal room.
The game starts at 1:30 p.m. Half-time entertainment will be provided by the KU
The theme for the program will center on "The Wizard of Oz" and will feature musical numbers from the movie and from the book. In "The Wiz," a spokesman for the band said
The performance will include an appearance by Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly lion dressed in a costume originally worn in the Broadway play.
Myers said that he hoped tomorrow's events would be a success, but that he would have to present an objective task for parents to have an opportunity to spend time with their children.
according to a recent business school placement summary.
students graduate from graduate school either with a master of business administration or in the business department which Maddus said raised the starting salary and marketability of the student.
Starting salaries for last year's bachelor of science graduates ranged from $7,000 to $14,000. The higher salaries went to accounting majors.
graduate school are receiving starting salaries of from $10,000 to $20,000, and Madaua said that the higher salaries were due to her undergraduate education emphasizing accounting, computer science, marketing and sales. Those who had undergraduate degrees in liberal arts were on the lower end of the scale, according to the placement
KU students who graduated from
Madaua aid the growing economic market would provide more job for December and January.
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