The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-16
Who Wants Il job!

The Independent Reporter Company
has two principal activities: Issuing
newspaper and operating job
printing plant.
From time to time we have taken
up things which have nothing to do
with either of the above. Some of
these have been services offered with
out charge with the hope of making
our institution more useful. Others
have been business propositions upon
which we have entered because they
were not carried on elsewhere in
Skowhegan.
Among the kinds of business just
referred to was the employment agen-
cy. There had been from time to
time feeble attempts to establish
something of the kind. None of them
had reached the point where they
were renumerative TO their promoters
or of any special service to the pub
lie. We knew that agencies of this
sort thrived in most of the towns and
cities in Maine. In the larger places
there are dozens of them. In
towns the size of Skowhegan there
are usually one or more. They are
very useful. They furnish an oppor-
tunity for an employer to find an en-
ployee without delay and they are
great help to man out OF JOB, Tor
he can almost invariably find some
thing to do quickly through one of
these agencies.
Our first attempt at an employment
agency was on the usual plan. We
charged $1.00 for entering the need of
any customer. An employer seek
ing help would pay us this fee on the
start. Whether or not we were sue
oessful he never saw his money again.
Likewise, man seeking work would
pay the same amount to have his
name, address and qualifications en-
tered We might find him job or
we might not but we kept the dollar.
This is the usual employment agency
proposition. We made little mon
ey that way but we found that the
amoant of the fee deferred great
many, both employers and employees
from registering. The result was
that our agency while it paid us well
for the amount of effort. did not serve
the public in the way that it should.
We conceived the idea that if we Of
fered the service free it would null
tiply ten-fold the number of registra-
lions. With this in mind we made
the announcement there would be no
charge to anyone, whether patron or
otherwise who wished to make use of
this employment service. The num-
Der of those who actually took adj
vantage of this offer was considerably
more than had done so under the Old
plan. Yet we feel that our employ
ment agency should handle many more
entries than it is now doing. Time
and time again we hear, incidentally,
of those who have been seeking en-
ployment unsuccessfully for weeks
and of employers who have been
searching for help for considerable
period. In such cases we wonder
why, as long as our services are free,
we have not been called upon. We
are disposed to feel a little vexed at
every such instance.
This publication is made with the
hope of better informing the public
on this particular matter. Won't you
remember, reader, when you want
Job or want to hire somebody, or
when you hear of someone who does,
to see that we get the chance to
help? Please remember it DOES NOT
COST ANYTHING. In doing our
best to fill every individual need we
advertise in our Everybodys Column
without charge), unless The party
applying prefers that we should not
do so.
Through these activities we have
ten times the opportunity to attend to
wants of this kind that man would
have who simply announced now and
then that he wanted a job or wanted
to fill some vacancy in his establish
ment.
Kindly bear all the above in mind
and help to make this employment
agency the success ii should be-
INDEPENDENTLY co.