GERMANY HELPS BOYS.
LOOKS UP POSITIONS FOR THEM BEFORE THEY LEAVE SCHOOL.
("Youths' Companion.")
When a British or an American boy leaves school he does not always know what aort of work he wants or is fit. for. Or even when he knows exactly what kind of job he desires, ho often does not know at all how to find it. Such a job as he aims for may' not exist within his opportunities of place and time. So the boy leaving school may drift into an unsuitable occupation, or worse, into no occupation at all, in spite of an honest wish originally to work. In Germany they order these things better.
Every year printed schedules of comprehensive questions are sent to every head teacher of the Munich schools to be distributed among the pupils who are going to leave the schools that year. The pupils are asked to put themselves in communication, with the municipal labour bureau, which will advise them as to the choice of a vocation, aud give them the best chance possible to secure work. Yearly circulars are also sent to all trade guilds and other labour societies to enlist their co-operation. The children respond readily to the aid given them. Boys come by dozens to the offices of the bureau in search of positions as apprentices or beginners. Each brings a form of application filled up by himself, but signed by his teacher. When the bureau finds a place for him he is notified by post-card, and presents himself for examination by the employer, wherever and whenever the latter may appoint. Whether the boy takes the job or not he must report to the bureau the- result of the interview, and this goes on until work is procured which suits him and which he is able to do.
For the direction of the boys the labour bureau has prepared, with the aid of export employers and medical men, a handbook of tho industries open to a boy. „ This handbook describes the different kinds of work., the qualifications necessary to each, the prospects of promotion or steady employment, the health conditions, the dangers and difficulties, the cost and time "of training, and everything else which the boy and his parents ought to know before choosing his career. A ladies' committee has lately been appointed to look after the girls, also, from the schools. So the young people of Munich have a first-ratft chance for a good start in lift*.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9212, 15 April 1908, Page 2
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