REPORT INCREASE IN POSITIONS SECURED BY APPOINTMENT OFFICE

The annual report of the Harvard Alumni Appointment Office for 1921-22, announces the placing of 131 graduates and other former members of the University in permanent positions with a total of $208,879 in salaries. Of the many kinds of business and professional work into which graduates have entered through the appointment office, manufacturing of various kinds has acquired the most men, 36 positions having been filled in this line of business. Mercantile occupations were accepted by 19 men, while brokerage, banking, and accounting positions were third, fourth and fifth in regard to the number of men employed.

Cooperating with the Alumni Association are certain departments of the University and Associated Harvard Clubs. The Graduate School of Education has filled 60 positions, the Engineering School 19, the School of Architecture 2, and the Divisions of Chemistry, Forestry, Geology and Social Ethics, one or more each. Although not many men were found employment through the various Harvard Clubs, practically all the clubs showed their willingness to help the younger graduates when called upon.

Purpose to Find Permanent Employment

The purpose of the Alumni Appointment office is to help graduates in their search for permanent business and technical positions or, broadly speaking, all non-teaching positions, and to help them find work for which they are best fitted. In order that this may be made of practical value the appointment office maintains a committee that serves it in an advisory capacity. On this committee are prominent men in all the representative industries in Boston; who are willing to advise students as to the salient features of their own lines of business.

Each year many members of the graduating class register at the office. One hundred and seventy-one 1922 graduates of all departments of the University took advantage of this service. Although the number of men who registered was about the same as in the previous year, a larger percent was placed by the office, in spite of the fact that there were comparatively few of the manufacturing companies running their training courses, and the condition of business in the textile, shoe and leather industries kept these factories from taking as many beginners as formerly. During the past year there was an increase in the number of calls from investment houses, but only a few of them could be filled because the majority of the men preferred manufacturing and mercantile lines.

The Alumni Association frequently has representatives from out-of-town establishments come to the appointment office to interview students who would be interested in possible employment in their companies. The next representative to visit the office will be from the Edison Lamp Works in Harrison, N. J. He will be at the office on April 12 to confer with men who are interested in accounting in the auditors department.

The Alumni Appointment Office is maintained at 50 State St., with office hours from 10 to 12.30 o'clock each weekday. The appointment secretary will also be at the Alumni Association Office in Wadsworth House one afternoon a week after the spring recess to confer with all men who would like more detailed information.

Statistics Show Growth of Service

In 1909-10, the Appointment Office placed 74 men in positions, and reports from 70 of these showed the total amount of salaries received to be $68,388, an average of $977. This number gradually increased up to 1916, when 221 men found positions through the Office, but the next two years showed a decided fall due to the War. In 1918-19, the largest number for any single year was placed, the total number being 274, and the average salary standing at $1,603. Although only 194 men obtained jobs by this means in 1919-20, their average salary was a good deal higher, being $1.827. In 1920-21 228 positions were filled, and the average salary was $1,827.