Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-06

nishes an exhaustive analysis Of himself
Then he will be analysed by the expert
in character analysis to determine the
kind Of work for which he la best fitted.
Next the guider who has the analysts
report. as well as the applicants own
self-analysis, will take him in hand. The
Suider is the official who corresponds
more closely to the head of an employ
ment bureau than possibly does any other
official of the vocation bureau. 1t is the
guiders duty to know all business and
employment conditions in his territory:
hours, wages, chances of advancement
and SO on Moreover, he must know the
agencies by which the applicant may fit
himself for better things: agencies. for
instance, like public and private schools.
together with Their courses Of study and
entrance requirements.
After the applicant has learned from
the analyst the kind OF work which he is
best adapted for. and after the guider has
advised him as to the most practicable
occupation to take up in line with the
analysts recommendation the applicant
talks over the whole situation with a
counselor. The vocation bureau is to
have a group of these counselors, repre-
senting virtually all the activities of the
city and each one a leader in his own
work They will give their time free to
the bureau. II. for instance, the voca-
tional analyst and guder think that they
have discovered musical prodigy In the
city, vocational counselor will test the
youngsters voice; II they find indications
that any particular applicant has excep-
tional latent ability as lawyer, artist,
mechanic or what-not, these business
counselors not only advise but place him.
When the young Washingtonian has
passed through the hands of these three
men. the director of the vocation bureau
will make summary Of his case and keep
in touch with him for the rest of his life
by means of an effective follOw-up sys-
tenn. Every three months the bureau will
send him a letter to find out how he Is
getting on: the employer Will also be
questioned, and the progress made by the
Young man recorded Thus, even in the
almost inconceivable event that the an
alyst, the guider and the counselor have
all been mistaken as to a mans apti-
tudes the error will be checked up within
actual conditions. and the boy or girl can
be put into some other vocation at once.
BY this plan no one Will be kept at work
for which he is untitled; and the import
ance of this statement to the world of
business and industry may be judged
from the fact that seventy persons out of
100 are today unsuited to the occupations
in which they are engaged. The vocation
al bureau is claimed to be the finest
piece OF efficiency engineering, as applied
to flesh and blood.
Here in Washington the bureau will
work in close cooperation with the Y. NJ.
&. A. Indt Wnlle the NOCatlOHd. WoTk
of the organization will he entirely dis
tinct from that Of the Y. NJ c. A, 1t
shall nevertheless call upon the heads Of
the various departments in the associa-
ton to act as consulting secretaries of
the bureau. working without pay. For
instance, IL the applicant needs advice re-
garding the care and training of the
body, in addition to receiving vocational
analysis and guidance. he will be directed
to the Y. NJ. c. A. physical director: If
ne needs special or additional educational
training. the director of education will
be consulted-not necessarily to place the
applicant in the Y. NJ C. A. institute, but
rather to discuss the general educational
aspects of the case. The secretary for
religious work. the director OF boys work
and other officials of the Y. NJ. c. A. will
be called In likewise to go over problems
in their own respective fields as presented
by special cases.
However, neither the management nor
the identity of the vocation bureau itself
will ever be merged with that of any
other organisation. 1t will always pre-
serve it's character as a purely civic en-
terprise. entirely non-political and nom
religious.
'As the Washington vocation bureau