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Spelman Spotlight
May 1985
Page 14
On the career front...
Table II
Number of Hires, Interview Schedules
And Campuses Scheduled by Employers
Number of
Number of Campuses Scheduled
Interview Schedules! For Recruiting Visits
Type of Employer
No.
of
Employers
No. of Hires
1984-85 1983-84
* **
%
Change
No. of
Schedules
1984-85 1983-84
**» **»*
%
Change
. No. of
Campuses
198485 1983-84
%
Change
Business
Accounting-Public
14
12,918
12,110
+ 7%
12,275
11,812
+ 4%
3,153
3,115
+ 1%
Banking, Finance & Insurance
44
2,947
3,089
- 5
2,962
2,883
+ 3
1,141
1,128
+ 1
Merchandising & Services
37
3,621
3,111
+ 16
2,558
2,427
+ 5
823
821
0
Manufacturing/Industrial
Aerospace, Electronics, & Instruments
44
21,718
20,672
+ 5
15,556
14,795
+ 5
2,754
2,712
+ 2
Automotive & Mechanical Equipment
26
4,322
3,918
+ 10
1,860
1,472
+26
607
534
+ 14
Building Materials Mfrs. & Construction
14
743
676
+ 10
762
732
+ 4
300
311
- 4
Chemicals, Drugs, & Allied Products
27
5,026
4,093
+ 23
7,006
6,399
+ 9
1,613
1,500
+ 8
Electrical Machinery & Equipment
10
3,701
4,060
- 9
3,664
3,989
- 8
793
815
- 3
Food & Beverage Processing
16
529
487
+ 9
946
821
+ 15
333
314
+ 6
Glass, Paper, Packaging, & Allied Prod.
10
204
125
N.A.
324
248
+ 31
128
116
N.A.
Metals & Metal Products
20
801
607
+ 32
1,179
956
+ 23
468
382
+ 23
Petroleum & Allied Products
17
3,122
2,067
+ 51
3,645
3,349
+ 9
958
870
+ 10
Research &/or Consulting Organizations
24
1,222
966
+ 27
900
839
+ 7
414
377
+ 10
Tire & Rubber
2
373
356
+ -5
280
378
-26
175
320
N.A.
Utilities-Public (incl. Transportation)
71
3,053
2,903
+ 5
2,178
2,045
+ 7
1,041
988
+ 5
Other Business &
Non-Profit Organizations
Other Business & Industry
20
1,175
1,212
- 3
1,038
995
+ 4
385
345
+ 12
Non-Profit & Educational Institutions
3
453
456
- 1
40
40
N.A.
24
25
N.A.
Total
399
65,928
60,908
+ 8
57,173
54,180
+ 6
15,110
14,673
+ 3
fOne interview schedule represents between II and 14 individual student interviews conducted by one recruiter. Both full and partial
interview schedules were counted equally.
*1984-85 figures are actual and anticipated hires.
**1983-84 figures are actual hires.
***1984-85 figures are anticipated interview schedules.
****1983-84 figures are interview schedules conducted.
NA-Not available because of small sample size.
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For Your Intellectual Enrichment 0 Continued from page 6
Plumb, Sterling, ed., Somehow We Survive. An Anthology of South African
Writing,
New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1982. This moving collection of
mostly Black poetry covers the whole scala fo the tortured human
condition in the land of institutionalized inhumanity.
Roux, Edward, Time Longer Than Rope. A History of the Black Man’s
Sturggle for Freedom in South Africa,
Madison/London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964. Originally
published in 1948, this is the first history book by a white writer that
seriously deals with the participation of Blacks in South African history.
Simons, H.J. and Simons, R.E., Class and Colour in South Africa, 1850-1950,
Harmondsworth (UK): Penguin Books, 1969. In this pioneering 'people’s
history’ by two exiled White South African radicals there is much attention
for the dynamic role played by Blacks in the making of modern South
Africa.
Thompson, Leonard, ed., African Societies in Southern Africa. Historical
Studies,
London: Heinemann; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. The
book is made up of an important series of essays on the early, precolonial
history of Southern Africa.
Tutu, Desmond, Crying in the Wilderness. The Struggle for Justice in South
Africa,
Grant Rapids, Michigan: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1982. In
this collection of his most recent sermons, speeches, articles and press
statements, the newly appointed Bishop of Johannesburg and winner of
the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize gives his considered views on the current
situation in South Africa.
Wilson, Monica and Thompson, Leonard, eds., Oxford History of South
Africa,
Oxford: Clarendon Press; Cape Town/New York: Oxford University
Press, 2 vols., 1969-71. In this comprehensive survey of South African
history by White liberal scholars, Monica Wilson’s chapters in volume I on
early African societies are particularly illuminating.