Show Officially Yours Work in Federal Service Open to Women There is an immediate need for women to replace men in numerous government positions and to fill the increased number of positions which the war has created in the government The needs are for persons already trained in the physical and natural Examples Physical Sciences There are not nearly enough especially in i the fields of ana All chemical or chemical engineering experts are employed and demands for personnel in these fields cannot be There is need for people to compile map data and to construct maps used in vital war to prepare reports on the geography and of foreign areas critically concerned in war or Dost-war to ad minister modern and historical map Because of the need in this certain branches of engineering have been broken into specific skills for which rapid training may be taken in the sub-professional Most important of these breakdowns are minor design time and motion Medicine and Related Fields There is need for medical technicians in the general fields of laboratory and Physiotherapy and Occupational Veterans' St. Elizabeth's Walter Reed and Army Hospitals throughout the country use occupational and the Veterans' Administration and Walter Reed Hospital in particular offer training in It seems probable in view of the needs of ill and wounded soldiers on return from the there will be a great extension in these two Management Economics and Social Women are preferred for the lower level particularly those in the junior grade at a year for which college graduates are eligible immediately after There are shortages in certain specified such as in cost industrial cost and government contract It appears there will be a steady demand for people with training in one or more branches of particularly in the field of price Miscellaneous Relief and Rehabilitation in Other There is need for persons with linguistic ability of a high order and training in different languages together with one or more of the a social and economic knowledge of particular professional education such as social training in dietetics and knowledge of international economic relations and foreign trade or secretarial Sub-professional Below the professional and sub-professional there is a growing demand for and those with general office and clerical The need is so great here that these positions have been called bottleneck of government service To enter the government The federal government has junior positions which maybe entered by means of either selection through written tests of the U. S. Civil Service or selection as a result only of submission of credentials indicating training and if In order to bring about maximum speed in filling war many of the examinations even for junior positions are of the unassembled Few of the positions filled from the lists resulting from these examinations require such a high degree of specialization in the education required that any person trained for them will be at a disadvantage in qualifying for other It is for this reason that these junior professional placements are of particular value for recent graduates of the liberal arts Chief among the ways in which young women just out of college may enter the government service is the junior professional assistant or through one of the junior examinations in the physical The requirements for these examinations arc four years' college that senior students may be accepted even if lacking not more than one semester or two quarters of for the completion of all requirements for the bachelor's Some course work in public opinion or propaganda analysis is also usually desirable as is proficiency in a foreign |