Evening star., 1942-03-23
All Registered Men
To Be Questioned on
Vocational Ski||s
IS Professions And
40 Trades Listed on
New Questionnuire
New Questionnuire

New Questionnuire
Voca tional information on all the
Nations registered manpower is to
be sought in the near future by the
Selective Service System.
A lengthy occupational question
naire, listing IS professions and 100
technical skills, is to be- distributed
soon by local draft boards to men
who registered in the February 16
draft group.
Later, Selective Service headquar-
ters said, the same occupational
QUESTIONABLE will be sent to pre-
vious and future registrants.
The form is designed to determine
whether those registered have any
of a wide variety Of skills, ranging
from "airplane fabric worker" to
woodworking machine operator" in
order that the Nation may employ
its n,anpower most ef{ieiently in@the
war effort,
Will Go to Two Agencies.
The data obtained is to be for
Warded to the National Roster of
Scientific and Specialized Personnel
for use in locating persons with pro-
fessional and scientific qualifications
and to the United States Employ
ment Service, to aid in locating
those having Skills in critical or eS-
sential professions,
The inventory will provide the
Government with the most complete
information on the technical and
professional skills and training of its
manpower that ever has been assem-
bled.
The data gathered according to
Selective Service, will serve as an
important aid in achieving a more
complete and efhcient utilization of
the manpower OF the country in con-
neetion with the war production
program outlined by the President" +"
At the present time the question
naire is to be sent onlv to regis
trants in the third draft, but later
it is to be sent to registrants of the
first and second registrations. with
the exception of those already in
Quoted into the armed forces.
Lists Two Choice Jobs.
In addition to the professional and
technical tasks listed, the ques-
tionnaire has a section seeking in
formation on other skills, where the
registrant is to list his present en-
ployment, the job for which he is
best fitted and the job for which
he is next best fitted.
There also is a section devoted to
employability information, where
the registrant may indicate, among
other things, whether he does mot
have job but am looking for work
or does not have a job and am not
looking for work"
Information on marital and de-
pendency status, race, citizenship
and education also is sought in the
extensive four-page questionnaire
Professional and scientific occu-
patiens listed are:
Accountant administrative ofheial, srchi-
tect. naval; architect; other; bscteriolosist,
biologist. budget analyst chemist, dentist,
economist engineer, aeronautical engineer.
chemical; engineer civil; engineer, elec-
Engineer, industrial: engineer, metallur-
slcal or mining; engineer, mechanical; en-
sineer: radio: engineer, refriserating or air
hsoran afHPss laR
yer mathematician, metallurgi5t.
soea
socloiosist ststisticisn, veterinarian.
Technical Occupations.
Technical occupations listed fol-
low:
AlrDlane fabric worker. airplsne me
HorH. Pilot on.atos afpsne sqsd
punoher and shearer; architect armorer,
asbestos worker, assembier, aircraft; assem-
strument; assembler, machinery; asssmbler,
other; automobile mechanic.
Babbitter. bench hand, metal work;
blowe1 bIasxsmi'5
er wood or steel boiler mechanic. boring
machine operator. metal boring mill op-
csbinetmaEer cable splicer csKer,
steel plate; canvas workers; earman, rail-
road shops; carpenter: cement hnisher
CHEMICAL ons1stor shppf5 metal eoh
coremaker; crane operator.
Ds1ailsr' drafting diemaker; desianer'
chlnery diver, craftsman dredgeman
Electrician, electric motor repairman;
sency squad worker fre or gas company;
engineer. locomotive: engineer. operatins
Grating engineer. stationary; engraver;
estimator. construction; explosives opera
tor
dairy: farm hand, other: farm machinery
repairman; fller metal: filtration plant at
shs rons Mil wses n
i've: hrst-aid attendant: hxer, machine
foreman factory fo5ser forge oSe Telder
metai
Galvanizsr: iron and steel; sas-pa9duser
grinder precision work growing MAJ chine
operator; sunsmith.
, hsmmsrsmith, hsrdene55: heat treater'
:, lnspector; inspector, machinery parts:
instrument maker: instrument repairman
internal keyseating machine operator: in
,keIler machine operator
Lapp!ng machine operator; lathe opera
TOR, layout man. Lead burner: leather work
er; lens arinder: lineman; loftsman: loom
hXer. lumber srsder.
Maehns oDernob ms6bD Eearm1 m.n.nshes TsShes
machine operator; mllwrsht; miner
model maker molder: motor analyst; mo-
tor cycle repairman: motorman. locomo-
tive: multipurpose machine opera tor; metal
working.
Nurse. registered
Optician; ornamental-iron worker; ord
hanceman.
Painter, ship; parachute repairer.
Patternmaker personnel man, pipe filter,
pipe man, water or gas main; planer op-
orator, metal; plasterer, platter, plumber.
policeman pourer, foundry; power house
operator. power shovel operator. press op-
orator. press operator, metal; printer, pro-
mill
Rsdn operator, radio repairman, re-
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