Job Expert

Lyle M. Spencer '33, author and employment expert, reports that the results of surveys he made while on tours of Europe and this country in the years before the war show that European young people were eager to enter governmental service while most Americans eyed private enterprises as their goal. American girls, he says, are more ambitious than their European sisters.

One of the founders of Science Research Associates which devotes itself to helping young people in their search for jobs, Spencer offers this advice to young job-hunters, "It is much better to specialize for a position than to be satisfied with a commonplace job." Skilled and semiskilled workers are wanted by all industries, he says, and, although the prestige is less, the income is greater than that of the white-collar class. The greatest occupational demand today, he reports, is for cooks, mechanics, domestic servants and salesmen.

Through a recent survey it was found that 40 per cent of the students in colleges want executive positions but only 10 per cent ever get them. For example, out of 500 applicants, Spencer reports, a radio station normally employs only four or five announcers a year.

Spencer says further that despite all the newly created war jobs in the United States, only one person out of every no will be employed in the armament program.