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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1981
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Placement Center helps find jobs, then keeps score
Students should plan ahead for firstjob,
says A&Mplacement director Van Pelt
By TRACEY BUCHANAN
Battalion Reporter
The Career Planning and Place
ment Center was packed Monday
morning with students filling out in
formation forms, glancing at the
number board, smoothing skirts, ad
justing ties and waiting.
CAREERS
INTERNATIONAL and DOMESTIC
OFFSHORE DRILLING
* What is the Drilling Industry?
* What kind of career does Offshore Drilling
have to offer you?
KEYDRIL
cordially invites undergraduate majors in ENGINEERING
to attend an informal gathering to discuss these questions
These seniors were anticipating
interviews - the first step toward life
after Aggieland.
Representatives of different com
panies interview students daily until
spring break and then some after
wards, said Louis Van Pelt, director
of placement at the Career Planning
and Placement Center. The Place
ment Center’s. semi-annual review
showed that 490 major employers re
cruited at Texas A&M University last
fall and that 78 of them were first-
timers. They held 17,077 total stu
dent interviews.
Students should go through inter
views at least two semesters so that
they will be prepared, Van Pelt said.
Ideally, preparation for landing that
first job would begin the freshman
year, he said.
FEBRUARY 10, 1981
7 P.M. TO 9 P.M.
ROOM 404
RUDDER TOWER
Refreshments will
be served.
Career counselors and faculty
advisors are available to help stu
dents identify their aptitudes, he
said. He emphasized the importance
of retaining strong faculty ties, which
he said are invaluable.
Academic excellence is a primary
indicator recruiters evaluate in a
prospective employee, he said.
“I’ve not seen any correlation at
all between a GPR (grade point ratio)
and success in a career, if you can
even define success, after gradua
tion, ’ Van Pelt said. “However,
when you’re looking for employees,
you look for indicators of some kind. ”
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job market wait in line at the University Placement Office.
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Spring recruiting and interviewing began this week!
campus.
Science, business pay above average
By TRACEY BUCHANAN
Battulion Reporter
Texas A&M University graduates,
on a national average, receive larger
salaries and are more eagerly sought
than graduates from other schools,
said Louis Van Pelt, director of
placement at the Career Planning
and Placement Center.
He said they have traditionally
done better and will probably con
tinue to do so for a number of reasons
- a strong group of former students,
supportive administrators, a caring
faculty and a good reputation among
employers.
The Placement Center’s semi
annual review, listing job offers,
acceptances and salary offers showed
that fall 1980 petroleum engineering
graduates received the highest
offers, an average annual starting sal
ary of $26,052.
The College of Engineering re
ported 621 job offers overall, the
highest number of offers reported.
The College of Business Administra
tion followed with 150 offers.
A forestry graduate and a history-
major reported the lowest starting
salary offer, of $9,600 annually.
The average monthly salary of
those reported by the College of En
gineering was $1,688 ($20,256
annually). This almost matches the
national average of $1,685.
The College of Sciences reported
an average monthly salary of $1,467
($17,604 annually), which is 7.9 per
cent higher than the national average
of $1,366.
The College of Business reported
an average monthly salary of $1,300
($15,600 annually), which is higher
than the national average of $1,219
by 6.9 percent.
The College of Liberal Arts trailed
the national average by 3.5 percent
with a reported monthly average of
$1,093 ($13,116 annually).
Van Pelt said, “The market is
probably depressed in certain liberal
arts disciplines, where it’s difficult to
pin a direct tie between a course
taken and a function and a jot;
graduation.”
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know what he wants and then
oughly study the job market,
Pelt said.
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