The Job Outlook

This time of year may bring on vernal vagaries for the freshmen, sophomores and juniors, but for the great majority of seniors there are down-to-earth matters to think about. Not the least of these concerns is a job after graduation.

Seniors this year are in an enviable position, according to Donald W. Cameron '35, who directs the placement work in Dartmouth's Personnel Bureau. He finds that starting salaries for college graduates are up 15 to 25 per cent over last year and that there is a heavy demand for good men in all fields. Starting salaries for men with a Bachelor's degree range from $225 to $350 a month, while students with a Master's degree or engineering majors can command as high as $400 a month. The demand is greatest for engineers and technically trained men, but a great many openings exist also in business sales and banking.

The number of companies recruiting at Dartmouth by means o£ personal interviews has been limited to eighty this spring. This limitation seemed desirable to fit the facts that nearly one-third of the seniors are going on to graduate schools, that others are committed to military service under the Navy ROTC program, and that there are considerably fewer seniors than there are job opportunities.

Most companies are willing to hire men regardless of their draft status, Mr. Cameron reports. These firms plan either to start June graduates on their training programs right away or to put them on a preferred list for the time when their military service is over. Only a small number of Dartmouth seniors are veterans or 4-Fs.

An interesting trend in employment this year is the recruiting on liberal arts campuses by firms that previously have gone after only engineers and technically trained men. This is explained partly by the serious shortage of graduates of the latter type, but is due chiefly, in Mr. Cameron's opinion, "to the growing realization on the part o£ the nation's executives that the product of a liberal arts education has acquired the background and breadth of knowledge which, coupled with company training, will enable him to fit into any facet of the business or industrial world."

If the trend continues, the job outlook for the graduates of a liberal arts college of Dartmouth's reputation is brighter than ever before.

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