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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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n frequent visits tothe schools, they discuss employmentopportunities in the telephone com-pany, and provide carefully preparedand attractively illustrated bookletsand reference material. Other ac-tivities include the showing of spe-cially prepared movies in the schools,talks to students, and open houseaffairs at the telephone offices forteachers, students, and their friends.Telephone people, knowing thatschool officials often want assistancefrom industry in meeting schoolneeds, always indicate their willing-ness to cooperate in other ways too.This help may, for example, consistof supplying informative bookletsand movies on specialized non-em-ployment subjects for use in scienceclasses. Some schools like to havea qualified speaker talk to seniors onhow to apply for jobs and how toconduct themselves during employ-ment interviews. Material on goodtelephone usage, beneficial to all stu-dents and particularly those takingcommercial courses, is also supplied. 1953 Recruitiyig Employees 159
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A Plant recruiter interviews cable men on the job Telephone companies often helpthe schools also through cooperativeeducation. Under this plan, a stu-dent goes to school part of the dayand works part of the day, and schoolcredit is given for the work expe-rience. Many high-school seniorswork as part-time operators—for ex-ample, a few hours after school andon week-ends. School needs comefirst, of course, and each case iscleared with school authorities tomake sure there will be no interfer-ence with school work. Such girlsare frequently employed for otherthan telephone operating work. There are real advantages to thisplan of part-time employment. Thecompany gets good employees, train- ing peaks at graduation time are min-imized, the student is sure of a jobafter graduation, and—of great im-portance to her—she has spendingmoney in the meantime. The factthat part-time high school employeesare good recruiting missionaries forthe telephone company in the schoolsis important in itself.

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