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"Without skills, summer job hunters need either good luck or good contacts," Richard L. McVity, director of the Summer Employment Office, said recently. A new tread accounting "skill courses" is the employment office's answer to this situation.
McVity indicated that the emphasis is moving away from random job placement in favor of a "training in skills" and the subsequent "placing of these skills" in particular jobs. The job-training courses being offered by the College range from computer programming to bartending and make this policy of "specialised placement" possible.
Earn $1000 in Summer
In recent summers, the skill courses have contributed to the employment office's increased success in placing students in higher paying positions requiring specialised training. McVity estimated that "given enough skill and hard work, a student can usually make $1000 a summer."
Mounting student use of the Summer Employment Office (an increase of 25 per cent over last year) has forced the program to expand its operations to the "nation-wide" level. On this national scope, McVity finds that New England, the West, and the mid-West remain good job-hunting locations, with the South and border states lagging noticeably.
McVity explains the increased student interest in summer jobs as the direct result of the higher cost of education, and said that "today's students are spending $1300 per year more than the students of a decade ago."
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