PLACEMENT SERVICE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 69, 20 February 1937, Page 13

PLACEMENT SERVICE

SCOPE WIDENED. The Placement Service is naturally dependent for its success as a factor in the Government’s employment promotion efforts upon the co-operation of all employers, and in order to foster this spirit of co-ordination the administrators are constantly seeking means to increase its usefulness, with this object in view, a decision has been reached to maintain a special waiting list for individual employers, says a I statement issued by the service. Probably every employer has hndj the experience of being interviewed! by, or otherwise meeting, individuals | by whose personality and qualifications j ho has been impressed, but for whom he cannot at the moment find employment because of being fully staffed. However, names and addresses are noted for future consideration; but it frequently happens that when a suitable vacancy occurs and one’s thoughts

revert to a particular individual the note is missing, or the person has changed his address, and contact cannot bo established. It is when this stage is reached that the individual appears even more desirable than before, while the need for an appointment is most urgent. The Placement Service proposal will act as a safeguard against a difficulty of the nature referred to. THE IDEA OUTLINED.

An employer who wishes to havo the name of a particular man recorded for future consideration need only communicate with the placement officer by letter or telephone and give the name and address of the selected individual. The name will be recorded on a separate “waiting list,” indexed under the name of the employer, the candidate being informed of this action and advised to keep in frequent contact with the placement officer and, in particular, to advise him of any change of address. When the services of the individual are required all the employer need do is to telephone (or write) the placement officer requesting him to send the man for duty. If he desires to interview all men who at his request have been placed on the waiting list, the men will be presented for interview, and those who are unsuccessful retained on the records for future presentation. Service officers are prepared to go farther than this. If the employer desires, the man will be interviewed, his past employment history ascertained and verified, and the employer will be provided with an opinion as to the general suitability of the man for the class of work that might ijc available.

SAVING OF TIME AND WORRY. This new phase of the service operations should result in a substantial saving of time, and the elimination of uncertainty of selection by private employers, local bodies, public utility organisations, etc. It is expected that this innovation will give further proof of the thoroughness of the service organisation and the efficiency of its methods, and of its claim to the practical support of every section of the employing community.