Placement Soars
BUSINESS AND TEACHING OPENINGS OFPAST YEAR EXCEED SUPPLY OF MEN
BUSINESS and teaching opportunities open to Dartmouth graduates during the past year were at a record high, it is disclosed by an ALUMNI MAGAZINE survey of the College's placement work with graduating seniors and Tuck School men. Conditions might have been abnormal, and the vocational officers involved are cautious in interpreting the record, but openings greatly exceeded the supply of qualified men all along the line.
Donald W. Cameron '35, Associate in Placement in the Personnel Bureau, reported that better than 90 per cent of the graduating seniors not going on to graduate school were accepted for employment or had been offered definite opportunities before they left Hanover. "This year,' he said, "an unusually large number of companies sent representatives to the campus to interview graduating seniors. Where normally about thirty such firms appeared before the war, this year no less than 55 organizations were in town. In addition, more than a hundred other companies wrote to us outlining opportunities."
Of the more than 550 June graduates, approximately one-half went on to graduate school, encouraged by G.I. benefits, and two-thirds of the 60 September graduates also chose further study. Those seeking employment found business opportunities many and varied. The majority were in training programs, manufacturing, retailing and distribution, banking and insurance. An unusually large number of technical opportunities were availble for only a few qualified men. Types of positions ranged from the trainee in sales or banking to one opportunity as test pilot with a large government aviation research organization.
Dartmouth's alumni vocational committees, located in 35 major centers, contributed successfully to the placement of some of the past year's graduates. Their help was especially valuable to men not settling in the East, where most of the companies visiting the campus are located.
Prof. Harry R. Wellman '07, chairman of the personnel committee at Tuck School, contributed to the MAGAZINE'S survey the information that there were about three jobs for every qualified candidate and that, except for 20 men who provided their own business contacts, the School . successfully placed the whole graduating class of 110 men. The largest number of Tuck men went into general management, followed by general sales and C.P.A. accounting. Sizable groups also went into banking, retail sales, commercial accounting, and investment banking, with smaller numbers taking positions in advertising, insurance, industrial relations, and the telephone industry.
Dartmouth's teacher placement service, under the direction of Prof. George L. Scott '25 of the Personnel Bureau, also reported exceptional results during the year. For the three periods of September 1946, February 1947 and September 1947, Professor Scott announced a total of 110 Dartmouth men, both students and alumni, placed in college and secondaryschool positions. The break-down of this total lists 53 in private and 18 in public secondary schools, 19 in college or university positions, 12 in junior colleges, seven in secondary school administration, and one in college administration. Seventy of this total group were just starting their teaching experience.
School and college positions were secured in twenty different states, led by New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York, and one group of five Dartmouth men went to Punahou School in Honolulu.
