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majors business, engineering and
computer science.
Another reason is because Univer
sity graduates often prove to be as
sets to the company that hires them,
he said.
"We don't have a visibility problem
employers know we exist," Bucher
said. "The problem is they don't have
the money to come up here."
James Slick,• University assistant
director of career information sys
tems, agreed: "(Companies) have
colleges in their own district, but, they
still come up here to recruit. We're
hot as bad off as other places."
The number of offers companies
are making is down as well, Slick
said. The decline is caused in part
because employers know students
are receiving less offers and are
therefore more likely to accept an
offer. If during a normal year a
Company might have extended five
offers to get one employee, this year
the ratio is more like 2-to-1 or some
times even 1-to-4 because students
are aware of job market, he said.
"Students are accepting offers ear
lier in the year and not shopping
around," Slick said.
However, all the news is not bad.
"Even in instances where we're
seeing decreases in placement rates,
in general, we're seeing increases in
salaries," Slick said.
Starting salaries are a better long
term indicator of the job market
while placement rates are short-term
indicators, he said.
Not all the salary news is positive.
The survey by Michigan State's
placement office reported that al
though starting salaries will increase
this year by an average of 2.8
Monday, April 18, 1983
percent the increase will be the
smallest in the past 10 years.
And althvgh the number of re
cruiters and offers coming through
Penn State's Career Development
and Placement Center has de
creased, the number of students
looking for jobs through the center
has increased, Bucher said.
In Fall Term alone, 4,863 students_
registered for interviews compared
to about 3,900 in 1981.
As
.a result of the tight job market,
many students are submitting re
quests for almost every company that
is interviewing students in their ma
jor, Bucher said.
About 55,000 interview requests
were submitted Fall Term compared
to 56,000 for a full year in 1977. During
Fall Term 1981, students submitted
about 42,600 interview request forms;
in Fall Term 1980, about 37,000 forms
were submitted.
"This fall, you turned in five re
•quests to get one interview," he said.
Employers are upset at this exces
sive volume because if overwhelms
their recruiting system. Asa result,
this may make the use of arbitrary
cutoffs, such as grade point averages,
and may work against the students
who are flooding the system.
"Volume is going to kill you. It is a
self-defeating strategy to turn in
more and more interview requests,"
he said.
Instead of submitting massive
quantities of interview request forms,
Bucher suggested students submit
class
job
faces
market
forms for companies they are inter
ested in and research the compa
nies more extensively.
"Do your homework. Research the
company. It'll really pay off later,"
Bucher said.
The problem of too many students
wanting interviews is not unique to
the University either.
At some colleges where no pre
screening is done by the company,
students have camped outside place
ment centers overnight to sign up for
interviews. Other schools have
started bidding systems where stu
dents are given a certain number of
points per term with which to bid for
interviews, according to The Wall
Street .Journal.
Other schools have reported that
some companies are coming to cam
pus to maintain a presence on cam
pus, with no intention of extending
any offers, the Journal also reported.
However, Bucher said this has not
happened at Penn State because
some companies have, had poor re
sults when they tried this in the past.
The companies lose credibility with
students and spend money for noth
ing. If a company simply wants to
keep its name on campus, it can do it
for a lot less money by sending speak
ers to various club meetings.
However, he said, "A number are
saying, 'We're hiring fewer.' "
According to the College Place
ment Council, the job market de
clined in almost every field this year
with the exceptions of math and sci
ence graduates. The council is pro
jecting a 5 percent decline in 1983
overall.
The number of openings for engi
neers will decline by 12 percent this
year, and the number of jobs for
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business majors will drop 4 percent.,
Jobs for those in non-technical fields,
such as liberal arts majors, will drop
9 percent, the council reported.
Among the Michigan State study
findings were the following forecasts:
• Physics: "Steep decline in op
portunities." _ .
• Personnel administration: "Big
slide in work,opportunities."
• Corhmunications: "Modest cut
back in hirings."
• Hotel and restaurant manage
ment: "Small drop of 7 percent in
jobs."
• Social sciences: "Decline of less
than 10 percent."
• Education: "About one-tenth
fewer jobs."
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Source: Career Development and Placement Center, Post-graduation study
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Commenting on the job market for
1983 graduates, Louise Sandmeyer, a
counselor at the C i areer Development
and Placement Center, said: "The
expectation has been that when you
graduate from college, you'll have a
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Even some of the• majors that are
traditionally seen as marketable
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marketable majors are having a
harder time adjusting to the'changed
job market, Sandmeyer said.
One example., of this, she said,
would tie lcomparing a liberal arts
major without a job to an accounting
major in a similar position.
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Marathon kee
31 lap total
best showing
in 2 divisions
By MARIA NICOLO
Collegian Staff Writer
Sigma Pi fraternity and the inde
pendent "Elliot's Boys" captured
first place in their respective divi
sions by running 31 laps in the 9th
Annual Delta Chi Marathon held in
conjunction with Kappa Delta sorori
ty this' past weekend.
By shaving .13 seconds off of the
fraternity division's winning time,
Elliot's Boys,performed the most 1/3
mile laps around Old Main ,in the
shortest time.
In the two other divisions,a group
representing the Women's Soccer
Team ran 24 laps to cop first place in
the independent women's division
and Phi Mu sorority took first place in
the sorority division with an equal
amount of laps. The independent
team clocked in the faster time, beat
ing Phi Mu by .4 seconds.
Event Chairman Andy Nachamie
estimates that through canning and
the entrance fees from the 67 partici
pating teams, about $5,300 was raised
for' the fraternity's scholarship pro
gram for University handicapped stu
dents.
Nachamie said the event went
smoothly and the marathon was a
"very fun and competitive event." He
said not many runners complained
about the cold, adding that at least
the weather was an improvement on
the rain, sleet and snow endured last
year.
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Joe Cringle (9th-mechanical engineering) hands off to Marshall Carpenter (9th•petroleum and natural gas enginee
the Delta Chi Marathon this weekend.
After a ceremony last night to
award trophies and medallions to
first, second, and third place winners,
Chi Omega sorority team member
Melissa Wiedemann said: "Mentally,
I felt really good, but physically
ugh." She said the encouragement of
her friends kept her going.
Monica Seelaus said her team ran
Saturday at 1:30 a.m.
"All the drunkards were out
cheering for us," she said.
Marathon winners are as follows:
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s going all night
'• Fraternity Division: (1) Mike
Hanlon, Walt Kleemeier, Bill Klee
meier and Pete Dooley of Sigma Pi;
(2) Acacia fraternity; (3) Tau Kappa
Epsilon fraternity.
• Sorority Division: (1) Marcy
McCormick, Jenny Reed, Tammy
Klase and Karen Ann Dallas of Phi
Mu; (2) Chi Omega; (3) Kappa Kap
pa Gamma sorority.
• Men's Independent Division: (1)
Dave Long, Dan Green, Joe Racama-
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Boys"; (2) K.P. Gang members Se
kulich, Parmelee, Nichter and Cham;
berlin; (3) McGoogap, Murach, Reiss
and Knott of Short Circuit.
• Women's Independent Division:
(1) Bonnie Fuhrman, Nancy Get
chell, Monica Seelaus and Barb Hen
ry of the women's soccer team; (2)
Speicher, Powlen, Boggs and Klingl
er; (3) Scarcia, Reimer, Sweet and
Bauer.