Evening star., 1940-06-21
1910 Graduates Face
Best Job Prospects
In -Four Years
Government Reported
Tokine More Workers
From Companies
By J, G, DONLEY.

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NEW YORK, June 81. - This
months crop of college graduates
face the brightest employment pros
poets of any similar group in four
years, according to survey just
completed.
In reporting on the results of the
company's annual job prospect sur
vey, however, King Merritt, vice
president OF Investors Syndicate,
adds the observation that employ
ers never have been more exacting
in their demands
One of the reasons for better job
prospects this year-and the writer
is drawing his own conclusions from
the facts gathered and reported
may we'll be not so much that busi-
ness needs more recruits of college
graduate caliber as that Govern
ment, getting bigger year by year,
is taking more workers right from
the campuses
In this connection it is interest
ing to note that colleges in the
South Atlantic States are In the
top position this year in job pros
poets. with nearly 80 per cent of
their men and women graduates
expected to obtain steady positions
before the summer ends. Moreover,
facts brought out in the survey in
dicate that about one-third of the
total Government inquiry for en-
ployes-Federal, State and munich
pal-comes from the South Atlantic
region and very largely from one
center therein-the District of Co.
lumbia.
Percentages Given.
According to the actual percent
ages given by the schools replying
to the QUESTIONABLE the prospects
are that 1926 per cent of gradu-
ates from colleges in the South At
lantic States will find almost i'm
mediate employment. The next
highest percentage of employment
expectation was turned in by COL
leges in Mountain States, with a
ratio of SO per cent; East South
Central States were next, with
$3.50. Then came the Pacific States,
with 70 per cent: West North Gen.
trail, 75.75 per cent: West South Gen.
trail, 1880 per cent; New England,
6425 per cent; Middle Atlantic, "a
per cent, and East North Central,
$3.50 per cent.
Teaching, engineering, business
administration, salesmanship, avia-
ton, medicine, law, accounting, Sec
retarial, agriculture, insurance,
journalism, ministry, architecture,
social welfare, chemistry and di-
etetics are requesting the greatest
number of graduates. The demands
vary according to geographic Sec
tions and immediate and prospec-
tive needs in different lines of en-
ployment. And sometimes ample
provisions made in one year or
series of years affects the demand
in succeeding years.
Aviation Needs Grow.
For instance, Mr.. Merritt points
out that aviation requests at New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
schools this year were twice as nu-
merous as in California, which is
Americas air center. The reason
is that a year ago plane makers
in California co-operated with their
schools and governments to meet
probable demands for workers. This
year aeronautical and mechanical
engineers were sought most by en-
gine and plane builders in the Mid
die Atlantic region. Air transport
companies put most of their re-
quests to South Atlantic colleges,
which ranked third in aviation de-
mands."
It should be explained, perhaps,
that prospective employers do not
always seek graduates within the
geographic region in which they are
to work, although demands of a
district often are good indicators
Of present or contemplated needs.
And the same consideration applies
to college enrollments. In some
districts-New England and the
Middle Atlantic, for instance-stu-
dents come from all sections of the
Nation. In others, such as the
West North Central, the majority
of students enroll from that of i'm