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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Monday, Sept. 16, 1985
Firm savs job fairs help in employment search
United Press International
DALLAS — Through executive search firms and college interviews, most companies are able to find people for their senior and entry-level positions but filling middle or lower level vacancies can be costly and time consuming.
That is because there aren't enough professional agencies that can locate the right candidates for such jobs and companies are forced to advertise on their own and spend a great deal of time processing the job applications, says Career Concepts USA. a Chicago consulting firm.
Career Concepts, founded four years ago, says the void can be filled
through its job fairs program at a considerable saving of cost and time to the employer.
The company, which likes to call itself a consulting firm instead of a placement agency, holds a number of jobs fairs annually throughout the country. Companies seeking to fill job positions are asked to participate in them for a fee and Career Concepts in return will bring the job applicants to them for initial interviews.
"If a company runs its advertisements, newspaper display ads cost upwards of $6,000 per ad and employment agencies charge a fee of up to 30 percent of the employee's annual salary," said Robert F.
Cramer, Career Concepts' national sales manager, who was in Dallas recently to organize a job fair. "Then the firm spends two to three weeks sifting through the applications. In our job fair, we complete the entire process in one evening and help companies to reach a large number of potential employees.
"In essence, we bring the candidates and the companies together. Most companies have immediate job openings and they need to fill them right away. They cannot wait two or three weeks because that can mean substantial loss of revenue. Plus we do all the processing of applications and select only the most qualified for the interview."
Cramer said a company participating in a job fair pays an average of $2,500 to Career Concepts. A candidate is not required to pay any fee to his firm whether or not the candidate was selected for the job. Cramer said.
According to Cramer, Career Concepts has several Fortune 500 companies as clients and Eastman Kodak recently hired 15 experienced sales and management professionals by office by office, in matching in Career Concept job fairs.
"The cost to the company amounted to $333 per hire." Cramer
Cramer said the Career Concept job fair is especially helpful to
companies that need to reach job seekers in many different cities.
He said a national sales manager who needed 10 sales representatives for five cities could recruit qualified job seekers in specific cities in only one evening through a job fair, effectively cutting down on time and money spent on interviewing and advertising for 10 positions.
Cramer said the job fair also allowed the job seekers a chance to interview different hiring companies at the same time under one roof.
He said that, while 60 percent of the candidates were employed, others came to the job fair to read the market and obtain valuable contacts
they could use when they were ready to make a career or job change.
"Our income is through repeat business. Currently 75 to 80 percent of our clients are in that category."
"Our typical job candidate is someone who makes about $18,000 to $30,000 annually, is about 25, to 35 years old and has a college degree He or she comes from a sales, marketing, management or ground. Most of them are already employed but are looking for a better opportunity."
Cramer said Carrer Concepts' revenue had grown from about $220,000 in the first year of its operation to about $1.5 million this year, averaging a 65 percent growth.
Prisoner population is increasing in '85
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The population in the nation's already overcrowded prisons increased by 1,000 inmates a week in the first six months of 1985, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported yesterday.
The bureau said the number of prisoners in both state and federal institutions grew by 5.6 percent, from 463,858 on Dec. 31, 1984, to 490,041 for June 30, 1985, an increase of 26,183, almost equal to the 26,610 increase for all of 1984.
"That's the equivalent of adding 1,000 additional inmates each week" to the nation's prisons, many of which already are overcrowded, said Lawrence Greenfield, director of correctional statistics for the Justice Department.
While nationwide crime is down, state and federal prison populations continue to rise — in part because of a nationwide cutback in court-ordered early release programs, Greenfield said.
"There has also been an increase in the variety and number of mandatory sentencing laws and generally tougher sentencing practices," he said.
Both state and federal prisons already are overcrowded, Greenfield said, adding he sees no respite from the recent increase of prisoners.
"We don't do any forecasting, but it looks like we should have a very high growth rate in (the rest of) 1855."
The average state prison was operating at 10 percent over capacity on Dec. 31, and has risen another 5.3 percent since then. State prison population on June 30 stood at 452,372.
Many states are "wigiously going about a prison construction program." Greenfeld said.
The nation's 46 federal prisons, holding 34,263 inmates on Dec. 31, were operating at "120 percent to 125 percent capacity" Greenfield said. The population has swelled by 9.9 percent since then, to 37,669.
Khadafy survives attempt on life
United Press International
CAIRO, Egypt — Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadramfy escaped an assassination attempt by resentful army officers last week, Egypt's semi-official Middle East News Agency said yesterday.
It was the second reported move against Khadafy by military officers in a month. The Egyptian newspaper al Ahram reported an attempt to overthrow Khadafy last month but
the report was denied by the Libyan ambassador in Rome.
In a Cairo-datelined dispatch, the Middle East News Agency quoted sources close to developments in Libya as saying disgruntled officers last week opened fire with pistols but missed Khadafy.
"Two of his guards suffered serious injuries," the agency said.
It said a secret trial of the would be assassining was under way. The prosecution had to prove
saying it was not known whether the officers had connections with another country.
"But it is certain that the would-be assassins have connections with secret cells of officers inside the Libyan army, which is seething with resentment because of Khadafy's foreign policy and the bad economic situation," the agency quoted sources as saving.
The agency said Khadafy, feeling unsafe inside Libyan army camps.
has moved his headquarters from the Aziziyeh camp near Tripoli to another camn near Benghazi.
"Khadafy will not be able to easily finish off these resentful army officers because they hail from major tribes whose reaction would worry him," the agency quoted one of the sources as saying.
Al Ahram said units of the Libyan army and air force mutinied last month after receiving orders to prepare for an invasion of Tunisia.
W. Germans like U.S. plan
'Star Wars' gains support
United Press International
BONN, West Germany — West Germany is likely to participate in President Reagan's "Star Wars" plan for an anti-missile defense shield, the newspaper Die Welt reported yesterday.
The influential daily, quoting sources in the office of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, said West Germany would "most probably" sign an agreement pledging to participate in research for a space-based anti-
ballistic missile defense after formally negotiating the ground rules
The report came after the weekend return of Kohl's "Star Wars" envoy, Horst Telschik, from Washington, where he and a commission of 30 German experts spent 10 days studying details of the U.S. plan.
"The specialists under Teltschik established that the requirements for such an agreement have been fulfilled," said Die Welt in a report ahead of its yesterday editions.
The report matched a similar one
in the newspaper Welt am Sontag. But there was no immediate official comment.
The United States plans to spend $26 billion over five years researching and developing a shield designed to destroy incoming nuclear missiles in space before they can reach their targets. The Pentagon said an anti-satellite missile was successfully tested Friday.
answering West German queries on "Star Wars" and said to be convinced there would be a fair exchange of technology and information between participants.
Tellschik, a Kohl confident, was reported "surprised and pleased" at the frankness of U.S. officials in
But the report did not specify whether Kohl would be willing to sign a direct government-to-government agreement to research the complex laser-based project. He may also opt to encourage or simply permit private West German industrial participation. !
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