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Show I ' MC y t , 1 i ip- : ""'' i- -'," io; V- ;-' ! is: f X r- r f ? - - ' - , d'- r- i i f r !;: - 4 '..- ,' .'L Li n Lin.i i - r-vijir NEW MANAGER The new Bountiful Job Service Manager, Viron Young, looks over one of thousands of applications for work. JARK D. MICKELSEN ,UNTIFUL The new :iful Job Service super-r super-r says a college education not be the answer any 'for young people seeking Her. Mi "ION YOUNG, a veteran rld War II and the Ko-SJ Ko-SJ War, has been chosen to f:;ed Norman Beers as !f ger of the Job Service 1 er for South Davis Young is a native of . i where he graduated .v.Ogden High School in .nd later served in both first as an air crew mem-Ft: mem-Ft: World War II, and then i" officer in the Army's w 3 missile program during ' (orean War. it; LLOWING the Korean j-n:t, Mr. Youngjoined the 'ervice in Utah where he B:d on management prob-nn prob-nn 28 separate offices. jr 'oung said a lot of people In realize what the Job Ser-, Ser-, :enter can do for them. pes to clear this problem E TRY to sit down with idividuals or groups," (oung said, "and help sort out a method to util-applying util-applying for work." He aid the service can help .idividuals by teaching f the skills necessary to a job. The process is ' ly successful, but the er of available jobs is lling on a daily basis, mer director Mr. Beers he North Davis County is severely depressed, )nly three jobs available sent. South Davis, on the hand, has only a 4.7 per-inemploymcnt per-inemploymcnt rate now, oints below the northern KED IE he believes col-seekers col-seekers should continue four year education, Mr. g was more than skep- 'e're finding out that peo-ho peo-ho go to college are col-riented," col-riented," he said. "And when they get out, they :o go back to trade school m a skill to get a job." 1. YOUNG also said that e planning to go to col lege "ought to be very select and spend a lot of time deciding decid-ing what fields they should go in to." The biggest abundance of jobs are in the service areas, Mr. Young said. The babysitters, babysit-ters, cooks, waitresses, bus-boys, bus-boys, "there's always a need for these." Unfortunately, the money isn't in these jobs, but rather in the skilled technical jobs, which there are many of according to Mr. Young. "THE HIGHLY skilled, qualified people can always find work," he said "There are jobs for engineers, for professional pro-fessional people, and always jobs for good salesmen. Where we are getting hurt now is in the construction market. Labor jobs are down because of the depressed building trade." Mr. Young also mentioned that agricultural work is down and virtually disappearing in Bountiful. He blames this on the fact that most of the land left is going for building. "WE DESPERATELY need people trained in the trades," he emphasized. "The skilled workers are still hard to find. Machinists, electronic technicians, techni-cians, real good carpenters, we always have a shortage here." He said young people aren't getting involved in programs that teach these skills, a dilemma dilem-ma which could eventually wipe out the "species" so to sp6sak. With the tighteningjob market, mar-ket, Mr. Young said people have to realize that they now have to be more mobile in order to get and keep a job. This is where the Job Service comes in, he said. By keeping in touch with various employers em-ployers in the county, the service ser-vice is able to locate jobs for qualified, competent applicants. appli-cants. "WE'VE GOT to be able to serve people in a fashion where we don't run them around," Mr. Young said. People are told that they must commute, and they must accept the fact. "We've got to be mobile enough with our idead here," Mr. Young said, "so that we can find out what jobs are available in the other administrative adminis-trative areas." MR. YOUNG will be working work-ing closely with Mr. Beers, who' has accepted a position as head of the Layton Job Service. Ser-vice. Mr. Beers said that between be-tween the two of them "they can make it work." |