WORK FOR PUPILS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 131, 15 March 1935, Page 3

WORK FOR PUPILS.

CONGENIAL EMPLOYMENT. TECHNICAL SCHOOL HELPS. “The finding of positions for present and past students is becoming a more important function of the school,” said the Principal (Air R. J. Thompson) in bis report to the Ashburton Technical High Sell poll Board ot Managers last evening. “Business men are relying more and more on the school’s assistance in obtaining their juniors, no fewer than five applications by employers being received on one day last week, ’ he said. “Some of these were filled by boys and girls who were not Technical School students. “This type of co-operation between school and business is likely to work out for the ultimate good of the boys and girls of the town. In too many cases, positions are obtained with the sole object of earning money, and employment for the majority is just ‘working for a living.’ If. we can fit tlie right boys and girls into right positions, they will take such an interest in their work that, instead of ‘working for a living’ they will be living for their work, to the advantage or the employer and to the increase of their own happiness. “Employers are finding that greater satisfaction can be obtained by giving tests to prospective employees,” Air Thompson stated. “These tests are designed to determine first of all tlie qualities necessary in the holder of any particular position and then to find out which of the applicants is most likely to have the desired qualities. While these tests are not infallible, they certainly have, in a good many cases, been the means of selecting employees who have given every satisfaction both to the employer and to themselves.”