Show SUCCESS SS FORMULA Engineer Graduates Have I Best Luck Finding Jobs This Year Colleges Say I I by Welt ern Newspaper rr r Union Some folks NEW dont don't hang much with book book but figures dont don't lie He either cither and n a survey sur sur- survey survey vey of employment in indus indus- industry indusI I try indicates that the fellow with a n diploma has the right ammunition for keeping the wolf from the door Parents who have scrimped these last four years to pay Juniors Junior's tuition nt ot college will willbe willbe willbe be heartened by one charac charac- characteristic of the business upturn up up- upturn turn noted for the first six months of the year The young Americans graduated this Juno June from the nations nation's colleges hove have h ve found chances chonce of nf land land- ins ing jobs lobs definitely better than last lost years year's crop Rosiest of ot all nil the reports with a n afew afew few months gong gone by to let this years year's hopeful find out Just how It feels to go roo knocking on doors cornea comes from Columbia whose Secre Secretary tary Lary of at Appointments P h I Moore estimate that the 1930 1939 class boasts a n halting batting average twice as S high In the League as S last years year's class More than 55 per percent percent cent of the graduates are already employed he hr says Only 14 H Schools Show Drop Hardly less optimistic are the I findings of 01 the family economics bureau of the Northwestern National Nation Nn lion al ell Life idle Insurance company of Min Mn- Minneapolis neapolis Minn which conducted an nn extensive survey urvey of at placement op op- opportunities for graduates Of universities aril n nd colleges report report- reportIng Ing 63 03 Indicated substantial Increases In creases In positions available for for graduates this year as compared I with 1030 1038 Twenty three said things looked look Id I'd just about the tho same as n last lost year while only 14 reported n a drop In the number of Jobs available The greatest demand according to 10 Mr Moore of at Columbia has hns come orne from employers In businesses ses who wish to recruit ma mn material for executive positions This seems kerms to with the thinking of Dr Karl T T. Compton president of 01 Massachusetts Institute of Technology In Boston Writing the foreword of n a new book he de dc describes scribes n a survey of officials of twO companies which Indicates that n a trained college college man Is 18 IB times as us likely to 10 bo bl president of nn an Industrial corporation as ns n a non non- college man 1214 times limes us ns likely to tobo tobo tobe bo be treasurer twice us liS likely to be bo beIn boIn bein In charge e of et production 18 in times as ns likely ely to be tin nn engineer and 12 times as ns likely to 10 be he n a sales official I. I Weapon for Job The book in which Dr Comptons Compton's foreword appears Is Engineering Opportunities edited by R. R R W W. Clyne CI ne and published by D fl Appleton Appleton- I I Century It describes the ore chances q n r rr r 1 ENGINEERS AG LEAD LEAD Among this years year's college grad grad- tints nates engineers get first call This young man is testing a u casting under X ray X-ray rny in in one of the grin great industrial of the young graduate engineer in each ench of 26 20 fields Odds with each ench field described by an nn engineer who has hns already attained success In it The espoused purpose of the book U Is to afford young engineers an opportunity opportunity to 10 learn something of the practical deal n 1 problems ns as well as n s the op opportunities In the field Odd they wish with to enter before they seek nn an interview with the employment manager Chapters cover industries us ns widely divergent ent as ns aluminum and raphy Almost without exception the schools which engineering courses report the demand to be higher for engineers than for men of other training Industrial chem chem- chemical lea ical electrical and mechanical en engineers engineers lend lead with the most active demand found in the chemical automotive m oil all steel st and electrical From Irom the University of Pith Pills Pittsburgh burgh In the heart of 01 the engineer lag Ing belt bell comes one of the most glowing reports Pitt says that in eight months its placement bureau lad had found time full full Jobs for 20 per percent percent cent mole mOIe graduates than during the tile entire year from June 1037 to June 1938 1038 Most requests were for various types types' of engineers with business training particularly sales soles manship Questionnaire Substantiates Trend According Accord to the Engineers' Engineers Council Coun cil for Professional Development approximately engineering students were slated for graduation during the calendar year 1039 1939 Ex Expressions of opinion that there are Jobs to be snored snared by the Industrious are corroborated by the Journal of Engineering Education which re re- reports reports ports n a survey on employment con con- conducted ducted among leading lending indus industries tries The rhe industries which re replied plied to 10 the publications publication's lions lion's question questionnaire noire reported the annual employ employment men ment of more than 2500 engineer engineering lug ing graduates For Por graduates graduate's in all nil fields all in in- in jr rl at about the same s me level as ns last year Most optimistic reports come from the cast east central and nad states statts with a 11 greater proportion of the schools in the West and South Southwest west reporting no change Wasn't It Horace Greeley who said Go west young oung man go westi 7 |