St Francis College - Franciscan Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Where are today’s job opportunities? What oc¬ cupations are open to Social Science majors? (Where can I study podiatry?) What tests can I take to determine my aptitudes, interests, and abili¬ ties? For what occupation am I fitted? (Where can I get a job?) (Do I have what it takes to make good in college?) To help St. Francis students find the answers to these questions, Rudolph Corvini, former Associate Supervisor in the New York State Bureau of Guidance, was appointed in Sep¬ tember, 1947 to organize a Guidance and Place¬ ment Service. Starting from scratch Mr. Corvini interviewed each of the 200 new students during the first month of the Fall term and simultane¬ ously started to collect standardized tests of apti¬ tudes, interests, and abilities as well as every con¬ ceivable type of information on occupational and educational opportunities. A month after the inaugration of the new serv¬ ice the first part-time placements were made fol¬ lowing procedures set up by Mr. Corvini. In November, 1947, the Guidance and Placement Service issued its first publication in the Career Opportunities series designed to point out the oc¬ cupations related to the major departments of study at St. Francis. Gradually as the counseling and testing service was extended to all students, a steady stream of men flowed in and out of the Guidance office. Temporary employment was se¬ cured for hundreds of students in the month of December. In January, when a number of men completed their work for the Bachelors degree a procedure for full-time placement of graduates and alumni was set in motion. By the end of the Fall semester when the de¬ mands for guidance and placement had reached such proportions that they could no longer be handled by a single person, the Dean of St. Fran¬ cis appointed a full-time Counselor to assist the Guidance Officer. Mrs. Beatrice H. Simmons was selected for this position because of her training in Guidance and Personnel Administration and be¬ cause of her experience in the NYU Testing and Advisement Center. With the coming of Mrs. Sim¬ mons, the Guidance and Placement Service as¬ sumed the responsibility for all Freshmen testing. By the time a student attends his first class at St. Francis now, the Guidance and Placement Service has already started a cumulative record for him which includes besides his application for admission, information concerning his occu¬ pational choice secured by means of a question¬ naire, and a profile chart of standardized test re¬ sults showing his strong points and weak points. Today, less than a year from the date of its organization, the St. Francis Guidance and Place¬ ment Service with its two professionally trained guidance specialists and its extensive collection of materials and information, is probably one of the best student personnel services maintained by any liberal arts college of comparable size. 25

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guidance and placement service Rudolph Corvini Director Beatrice H. Simmons Counselor 24

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