Show r SUCCESS FORMULA engineer graduates have best luck Z j finding jobs this year colleges S say ay oy EW YORK some folks NEW N dont hang much with book kearnin but figures dot dont lie either and a sur rf 51 employment in industry indicates that the fellow with a diploma has the right ammunition for keeping the wolf from the door parents who have scrimped these last four years to pay auw ors tuition at college will be heartened by one characteristic te of the business upturn iotes for the first six months of the year the young americans graduated this june from the nations colleges have found chances of landing jobs definitely better than last years crop rosiest roviest of all the reports with a few months gone by to let this years yuls als find out just how it feels knocking on doors comes from columbia university whose secretary of appointments robert 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 hardly less optimistic are the findings of the family economics bureau of the northwestern national life insurance company of minneapolis minn which conducted an extensive survey of placement opportunities port unities for graduates of universities and colleges reporting 63 indicated substantial increases in positions available for graduates this year as compared with 1938 twenty three said things looked just about the same as last year while only 14 reported a drop in the number of jobs available the greatest demand according to mr moore has come from employers in various businesses who wish to recruit material 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 of the young graduate engineer in each of 26 fields with each field described by an engineer who ha has already attained success in it the espoused purpose of the book is to afford young engineers an opportunity u 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 manager chapters cover industries as widel widely y divergent as aluminum and photography almost without exception the schools which offer engineering courses report the demand to be higher for engineers than tor for men of other training industrial chemical electrical and mechanical engineers lead with the most active demand found in the chemical automotive oil steel and electrical in industries dus tries 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 from june 1937 to june 1938 most requests were for various types of engineers with business training particularly salesmanship the editorial staff of school and society joins the bandwagon with the report that every engineering graduate of the university had been 7 li 4 V Z e Z L ENGINEERS RS LE LEAD AD among this year s college graduates engineers get first call this young man is testing a casting under xray X ray ra y in one of the great industrial laboratories placed in a job several weeks before graduation according to the engineers 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 conducted among leading industries the industries which re plied to the publications questionnaire reported the annual employment men 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 ot of the schools in the west and southwest reporting no change it horace greeley who said go west young man go west |