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Show Opportunities for Women Trained In Home Economics Reviewed ites need to be dealt with end girls directed into channels where i they seem to fit best, employers ' decided. They concluded grades and type of training is important, but important im-portant too is personality in the commercal world. Initiative, self-discipline, self-discipline, and knowing how to get along with people were considered important characterstics of well-trained well-trained women. Three to four positions a available in Utah as well as throughout the nation for women well-trained in home economics, : Miss Una Vermillion, associate ! professor of institutional manage-at manage-at Utah State Agricultural college reported following a recent- survey j of Utah industries and business , houses. - i Attempting to rind the type of positions throughout the state, open to women trained in home economics, Miss Vermillion visited visit-ed leading firms and hospitals. Department stores offer the greatest variety of work; to home economics graduates, she; said. There is a place in these stores for advertising copy writers, sales women, heads of departments, and buyers of fabrics in ready-to-wear departments, decorators and advisors advis-ors in the home decorating department; de-partment; assistant in the cafeteria cafe-teria and trainer of sales personnel. person-nel. i " At the present time there is a derth of women in day care centers cen-ters for children, she explained. To obtain positions in these centers cen-ters women need training in child development as well as training in institutional management. School lunch programs throughout through-out the state also need supervisors. Factors in this program center around foods, planning menus, and buying conservation, Miss Vermillion Vermil-lion explained. "Prominent in the public eye following fol-lowing the war will be home and public demonstration work for private industry programs" declared declar-ed Miss Vermillion. "Women, interested in-terested in this field should have actual experience in giving demonstrations demon-strations while copy writing, advertising ad-vertising and commercial work are directly connected wth the demonstration demon-stration programs." There is urgent need for local home economists to write for newspapers and radios. Timely needs and problems can be met more satisfactorily through locally trained peronnel than through syndicated columns, Miss Vermillion Vermil-lion emphasized. Among other positions open to women equipped with economics training are food supervisors of labor campus, air, rail and ship hostesses, dieticians, 'and Red Cross workers. Employers and personnel of Utah firms besides considering training, judge girls largely from the results of the personel interview, inter-view, Miss Vermillion discovered. Personnel directors agreed that more emphasis should be placed on personality development. Personal- |