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Show Jobs Wailing for Girl Graduates Survey Shon s All IT ho Want Work Can Have It. MINNEAPOLIS. The girl graduate gradu-ate may have been nn employment problem at one time, but for the duration at least that situation is drastically reversed. This is indicated by the eighth annual an-nual survey of employment for college col-lege graduates both men and women wom-en conducted by the Northwestern Life Insurance company in 123 colleges col-leges throughout the nation. , The report emphasizes that start tag salaries are establishing "new highs." "Women are being inducted into all the usual women's jobs and also as junior executives, personnel officers, of-ficers, salesmen and sales executives, execu-tives, and into engineering and accounting. ac-counting. The placement officials unanimously said 'All graduates who want jobs can have them.' " In many men's colleges, the senior class is going into uniform immediately. imme-diately. From one-third to two-thirds two-thirds of the 1943 engineering graduates gradu-ates are being drafted into the fighting fight-ing forces; the remainder are being be-ing snapped up by war industries. The shortage of trained engineers ! may be even more grave in 1944. The report adds: War industry offers three to ten war jobs for every engineering graduate grad-uate available, and is absorbing business administration and other seniors. Civilian industry can draw only from 4-F's and women who do not enter war work. There is a noticeably increased interest in Latin-American jobs. 1 Many graduates are interested in long-range possibilities in the jobs they select. A few appear to be developing de-veloping exaggerated ideas of their salary value. The survey also reports that many universities and colleges are working work-ing in advance on problems of postwar post-war employment. |