Girls Interested In Their Jobs

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31649, 8 April 1968, Page 3

Girls Interested In Their Jobs

(N.Z.P.A. Correspondent) LONDON, April 6. The average office girl is more interested in her job and more anxious to work hard at it than she is usually given credit for, according to a survey conducted by the Alfred Marks Office Staff Agency. The survey shows that most girls look for a job which involves interesting duties: 37 per cent of the sample gave this as the most important reason for choosing a job. Only 22 per cent gave the level of starting salary as their first consideration. The prospects of promotion a job offers are also important to office girls, and for those under 18 they are even

more important than salary. These facts tie in with the findings of an earlier survey by the Marks Agency. The boring, routine duties are among the main reasons why office girls leave their jobs, second only in importance to the inducement of higher salaries.

Two-thirds of the girls interviewed (1474 in all) were anxious to be busy all the time. Only 15 per cent said they wanted a quiet, leisurely routine.

Travel agencies, advertising, and public relations are the most popular fields of employment for office staff at present. The Government, national and local, is the least popular employer, followed by stockbrokers and accountants.

But this may be because many girls are not sure of the type of work involved in these offices.