Show SUCCESS FORMULA engineer graduates haye have best luck finding jobs this year colleges say released b western newspaper union EW YORK some folks NEW dont hang much with book kearnin but figures dont lie either and a survey of employment in industry indicates that the fellow with a diploma has the right ammini ammunition tion for keeping the wolf from the door parents who have scrimped these last four years to pay juniors tuition at college will be heartened by one characteristic terl te of the afie business upturn noted for the first six months of the year the young americans graduated a ted this june from the nations colleges have found chances of land ing jobs definitely better than last years crop rosiest roviest of all the reports with a few months gone by to lot let this years hopefuls find out lust just how it feels to go knocking on doors comes from columbia university whose secretary of appointments rob robert rt F moore estimates that the 1939 class boasts a batting average twice as high in the employment league as last years class more than 55 per cent of the graduates are already employed he says only 14 schools show dr drop of P hardly less optimistic are the findings of the family economics bureau of the northwestern na national tion 1 lite life insurance company of minneapolis nea polls minn which conducted an extensive survey of placement opportunities port unities tor for graduates of universities and colleges reporting 63 indicated substantial increases in positions available for graduates this year as comp compared ared with 1938 2938 twenty three said things looked just about the same as last year while only 14 reported a drop in the number of lobs jobs available the greatest demand according to mr moore of columbia has a s come from employers in parlous various businesses who wish to recruit material tor for executive positions this seems to agree with the thinking of dr karl T compton president of massachusetts institute of technology in boston writing the foreword of a new book he describes a survey of officials of companies which indicates that a college trained man is 18 times as likely to be president of an industrial corporation as a non college man 12 times as likely to be treasurer twice as likely to be in charge of production 18 times as likely to be an engineer and 12 times as likely to be a sales official weapon for job hunters the book in which dr comptons comptois Com foreword appears Is engineering opportunities edited by R W clyne and published by D appleton century it describes the chances i ti 7 7 ENGINEERS LEAD among this years college grad bates engineers get first call this young man is testing a casting under xray X ray in one 01 the great industrial laboratories of the young graduate engineer in each ot of 28 26 fields with each field described by an engin engineer eer who has already attained success in it the espoused purpose of the book is to afford young engineers an op anity to learn something of the practical problems as well as the opportunities port unities in the field they wish to enter before they seek an interview with the employment mana manager ger chapters cover industries as widely divergent as aluminum and photography almost without exception the schools which offer engineering courses report the demand to be higher tor for engineers than formen for men of other training industrial chemical electrical elect and mechanical engineers lead with the most active demand found in the chemical aLitO automotive mOtive oil steel and electrical industries from the university of pittsburgh in the heart of the engineering belt comes one of the most glowing reports pitt says that in eight months its placement bureau had found full time jobs for 20 per cent more graduates than during the entire year year from june 1937 to june 1838 1938 most requests were for various types of engineers with business training particularly salesmanship questionnaire substantiates trend according to the engineers counell council for professional development approximately engineering students were slated for graduation during the calendar year 1939 expressions pres of opinion that there are jobs to be snared by the industrious are corroborated by the journal of engineering education which reports a survey on employment con leading industries tri esThe the industries which replied to the publications questionnaire reported the annual employment 0 of more than 2500 engineering graduates for graduates in all fields all institutions report starting salaries at about the same level as last year most optimistic reports come from the east central and middle western states with a greater proportion of the schools in the west and southwest reporting no change it horace greeley who said go west young man go west |