This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...to us for consultation, and, according to their own statements, all but two have received much light and help, some even declaring that the interview with the counselor was the most important hour of their lives. Among the applicants have been Harvard seniors, students from Dartmouth and other neighboring colleges, a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...to us for consultation, and, according to their own statements, all but two have received much light and help, some even declaring that the interview with the counselor was the most important hour of their lives. Among the applicants have been Harvard seniors, students from Dartmouth and other neighboring colleges, a number of college graduates, young men in commercial and business life, and some older ones, including an ex-bank-president of splendid ability, and a traveling salesman who at one time made sales amounting to two hundred thousand dollars a year. The majority of applicants, however, have been boys and girls from the high schools or working boys and girls of high school age. A Vocation Department has been established by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association as a branch of the Bureau, and the counselor has kept regular appointments at the Women's Educational and Industrial Union and at the Twentieth Century Club. The Bureau does not attempt to decide for any boy what occupation he should choose, but aims to help him investigate the subject and come to a conclusion on his own account, that is much more likely to be valid and useful than if no effort were made to apply scientific methods to the problem. Our mottoes are Light, Information, Inspiration, Cooperation. XIII THE SCHOOL FOR VOCATIONAL COUNSELORS The Vocation Department of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association has established a school for vocational counselors, to train men for carrying on vocational bureau work in connection with Young Men's Christian Associations, schools, colleges, universities, social settlements, and business establishments. The employment department of the Y. M. C. A. acts in coordination with the vocation department. The demand for vocational counselor...
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