Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-18
How we'll am I qualified?

How well am I qualified?
What do 1 lack?
What's the cash value OF my
schooling2
Thousands of girl graduates. seek
ing or finding their first job, are to-
day asking themselves these vital
questions Is they face commence
ment in the business world.
Their talents. wit, training and or
binary horse sense are being tested
and tagged.
Many of them are finding, with
some bewilderment. that there is a
considerable a between what they
are able to deliver technically and
what additional merit is required in
the worth while position.
Responsibility for this gap is vari-
ously laid to business colleges, the
general school system, employers of
n certain class, parents, and the girl
herself.
Wherever the bulk of the blame
may rest, the average girl on the
threshold of the workaday world IS
apt to find that the human qualities
which back up and round out tech
nical excellence are rated at a higher
cash value than mere knowledge OF
business practice or speed in typing.
The attitude of many employers.
here and elsewhere, is summed up in
this connection in the following para
graphs by w. S. Owensby, chief
clerk, western division. of the Vest
ern Union Telegraph Company, and
employment expert, in answer to the
question:: what is the matter with
the girl graduate as a business in
vestment?"
Mos of ALL" explained owensby.
I'VE want th~oroughness, loyalty, m
bition, initiative n just ordinary
'savvy'-the human n moral quail
ties which too many schools either
do not or cannot teach.
Generally girls applying for jobs
are all right on theory and technique,
but many of them haven't been
| taught discipline, business
| and a fundamental understanding of
what business is about n what part
they are expected to play in it If
they're to succeed.
'The average graduate seems to
fear responsibility. And where there's
little responsibility there's little pay.
Most business colleges over-stress
speed, at the expense of thorough
ness. Consequently, we often find the
fastest worker actually the poorest
and most costly-too often a BRAIN
less machine pounding out errors
Far more valuable Is the girl who
works thoroughly and intelligently
1 WITH UlOu6TdLt SptGa.
schools should teach pupils that
| dissipation interferes with good work
and precludes good pay.
81 recently had to discharge a girl
whose pay I had raised 50 per
month for several months-because
she stayed out late at night and got
in the habit of mapping at her work.
She lacked loyalty.
"a girl must know more than text
A4@h ghn nxnnOtd IN
get anywhere in the business world.
When parents, girls and schools rec
ognize this there will be a far less
costly readjustment period between
the time she graduates and the time
she can command a good salary"
The head of one of the largest vo'
cational training schools in the coun-
try believes that no business college
| graduate should be encouraged to
accept a job for less than $50 to $40
per month.
Tell ~penurious employers to LOOK
| elsewhere" is his advice.
"Another great handicap in pre-
pairing girls for a business career is
| the failure of the father to concern
| himself in their education. 1t is a
grave mistake for him to leave the
| cultural and practical development of
| his daughter entirely to the mother.
| He should constantly give her the
benefits of his own experience and
observations in the world of work"
In speaking of the rouge evil"
this instructor says. I'VE make the
| girl student drop the lip stick or we
| drop the girl. We are not catering to
employers who prefer a ready smile
to sound business training.
sit is d~eplorable and an Indictment
| against a certain type of business
man that 80 per cent. of our girl