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Job Action Club (cont)

Human Resources sponsored program. The
three aspects were developed to build
confidence and help the unemployed find
work.

"First, the person draws up a list of
friends, ex-employees and relatives who
can help give them job leads, then they
also go through the phone book, trade
journals and union halls trying to Find

as many job leads as possible.

"Step two, which uses the telephone, is.
aimed at getting an interview with po-
tential employers, whether there is pre-
ently a job opening or not," Petty said.

The third aspect is impressing the po-

tential employer during the job interview.

"We prepare the student through interview

training, role playing and by using spec-
ific techniques which allow the inter-
viewee to take control of the interview,"
Petty explained.

The club also acts as a support group to
all of the participants and so far the
success rate has been excellent. Approx-
imately 80 per cent of the graduates of
the three week program find employment.

"It is exciting because it works; when
you see a meek and mild person use the
telephone and get an interview, it builds
everyone's confidence in the program,"
Petty said.

The 20 per cent who do not find jobs are

_mostly made up of people who do not have

the proper job expectations or who have
an emotional/social handicap.

The people who do not have proper job ex-
pectations are usually sent back to the
Canada Employment Office where they can
receive a reassement of their job skills.

The Ministry of Human Resources is pres-
ently sponsoring the studetns who attend,
but Douglas College is able to enroll
registrants when seats are not filled.

 

Sees a very rewarding experience for an
instructor in this program when the stu-
dents find employment and most of them do,"
ae said.

 

Don't Touch That Light!

It has come to our attention that a num-
ber of people, in finding the intensity
of light too strong, have reduced the
light emission by disconnecting one cr
more of the fluorescent tubes in a fix-
ture.

Please do not alter the electrical fix-
tures in this fashion. The electrical
contractor has a one year warranty on his
work wherein he must guarantee electrical
components against faulty manufacture and
workmanship. Any tampering with a piece
of electrical equipment will void this
warranty. Disconnecting the fluorescent
tubes will cause the ballasts to burn out.
The light fixtures operate at 347 volts
and the ballasts, therefore, are of high-
er voltage than would normal ly be the case.

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To the extent that lighting in a particu-

_ lar area is too bright, we will endeavor

to disconnect the fixture entirely, or to
perhaps provide tubes of different emis-
sion characteristeics. Relocation of the
individual from immediately beneath the
fixture might also be entertained if at all
possible. Please advise Physical Plant
should you have a problem.

West Graydon

 

Academics as a Vocation;

Excerpt from The Province, January 25, 1983
by Crawford Kilian, Province Education Re-
porter.

As a teacher of career-program students, I

suppose I should be cheered up by the