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Show College seniors get more offers College seniors are receiving more and higher salary offers in what is expected to become the most competitive recruiting season m history. Despite the intense competition, competi-tion, however, the escalation does not appear to be as sharp as anticipated, according to an announcement by B. Keith Duf-fm, Duf-fm, director of placement at BYU, one of the institutions participating in the College Placem e n t Council's 1966-67 survey of beginning salary offers of-fers to college seniors. The Council's first report of the season shows that since the end of June, the average offer to bachelor's-degree candidates with a technical background has risen 5.2 per cent to $706 per month, while the average offer to non-technical students has gone up 4.6 per cent to $596. The mnct TinfoKu 4- 1 ucuu revealed re-vealed by the survey has been the gain in volume of offers, rather than in dollar value. The sudden surge in demand for college-trained manpower by business and industry has resulted re-sulted in a 42 per cent increase i the number of offers compared com-pared with 1965. Technical students stu-dents in particular have been m short supply and the number of foffers to this group has climbed 59 per cent in the two years. |