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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1981)
Interviews have begun Placement office: job hunt aid The Texas A&M Career Planning and Placement Center schedules interviews with 780 companies looking for graduates. By TERRY DURAN Battalion Staff The search is on. The Texas A&M Placement Center already has begun signing up students for some 17.000 inter views with potential employers. Interviews with the 780 com panies participating began Sept. 14 and will continue through Nov. 25. Placement Center Director Lou Van Pelt and Associate Dire ctor Ron Winn said Tuesday they are “understandably pround of the Aggie job-finding service; 25 percent of all job offers in the five- state southwestern area — Texas, Oklahoma, Lousiana, New Mex ico and Arkansas — go to Texas A&M students. Van Pelt also pointed out a steady increase in interviews since 1973 — when the center moved to its present location on the 10th floor of Rudder Tower — from 10.290 to an expected 34,000-plus for the 1981-82 school year. He said the Placement Center’s history can be traced back to 1896 and F.E. Giesecke, who served as director while working the Texas A&M College Alumni Associa tion. Winn said “just about all” of the major energy, engineering, accounting, construction, retail and agricultural firms interview- through the placement office. “We have firms that spend 100 man-days a year interviewing Aggies,” he said. One company alone finally hired a total of 162 Texas A&M graduates with various degrees, he said, and another hired over 40 Aggie engineers. Out of 58,742 engineering de grees awarded nationally in 1979- 80 school year, 994 (1.69 percent) were from Texas A&M. and most of those students got jobs through the Placement Center — “not an insignificant slice of the pie,” Van Pelt said. Winn said about 65 percent of 1981 graduates used the center to hud post-graduation employ ment. Students can begin their inter view files by going to the Place ment Center and filling out a stan dardized information file includ ing a resume and a form giving consent to the center to show the student’s file to potential em ployers. “We do insist,” Winn said, “that the resumes be typed, so the stu dent can put his or her best foot forward with the (prospective) employer.” Once a student’s file is started, the placement enter keeps it and makes it available to companies making “paper searches” — look ing for students with the right credentials for a job. Then, some times, the employer will contact the student, rather than the other way around. After establishing a file, the stu dent brings a copy of his resume with him to each interview. Winn said students can register with the Placement Center up to three semesters before gradua tion. He said students can also re gister for summer job interviews, w'hich sometimes turn into perma nent employment after gradua tion. Winn said students who already have signed militan contracts are not excluded form interviewing, especially those wTio will only be on active duty a short time before going on reserve status. “They (students on reserve con tract) should definitely go ahead and interview,” Winn said. “Some companies figure the experience will wind up giving them a better employee.” The center has a career library, where students can find out about potential employers and prepare for interviews with specific com panies. “It’s really a very simple pro cess” to use the Placement Cen ter, Winn said. Since the center is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mon day through Friday, he said, “just about anybody can work their schedule around to get in to see us. “One of the key things," he said, “is to get everybody who’s graduating to get up here. If they have a file started, it greatly en hances opportunities that they might not have even known were there.” Tenneco Oil offers you a multiple choice At Tenneco Oil Exploration and Production, we offer graduating seniors a choice of careers. Our growth and success means a variety of job opportunities with a strong, supportive com pany who offers high visibility and rewards its performers with excellent benefits. We are look ing for exceptionally competent individuals to compliment our team of professionals. WE’LL BE ON CAMPUS OCTOBER 12,13,14,15,16,1981 INTERVIEWING FOR PETROLEUM AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, SYSTEMS, GEOLOGY, LAND, TAX, AND ACCOUNTING POSITIONS TEXAS A&M Check with The Placement Center to schedule an interview with our representative. We will also be interviewing on October 16 for Accounting positions for our Summer Internship Program. Tenneco Oil Exploration and Production We are an equal opportunity employer, m/f. A Tenneco Company