WIIITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY. JULY 17, 1985, PAGE 11 Student employmenh centre sayse. More students found jobs this ye ar By JAN DODGE Free Press Staff Whitby student em- ployment this summer bas surpassed goals set by the Whitby Em- ployment Centre for students. Adrienne Lewis, supervisor of the Oshawa centre, speaking in the absence of Gordon Kennedy, Whltby supervisor, said, "Whitby is having a good month ... the goal for placement for the month of July was 98 students. Already (July 9) Whitby bas placed 135 students this month. " According to Lewis, Witby's total summer placement goal to the end of August is 520 students. To date (July 9) 548 students have been placed. Registrations are also up. The goal for registrations for July was 86 students. July 9 statistics show 104 students have already registered this month, and Lewis said, "'The job orders keep coming down. " one of the reasons Whitby is doing s0 well, Lewis said, is because of the farm labour pools. The Bowmanville pool bas a liaison with the Whitby office, and as a result, 50 students are working on local farms, picking strawberries. Besides doing farm labour, students are fin- ding work at babysit- ting, telephone soicitation, gas stations as attendants, and seasonal-type em- ployment. "Most of the career-related jobs are ail filled." They were filled early in the sum- mer and continue to the end of August, Lewis said. When students register at the Whitby Employment Centre for students, located at 132 Dundas St. W., they fi in file cards stating skills, likes and dislikes, experience, hobbies, First time students were hired.... 50 foumd work on the farm The Farm Labour Pool found work for more than 50 Whitby students this summer. "It was the first time we had used students in thse Whitby area," said Walter Piersma, field representative for the labour pool. The office, located in Bowmanville, serves the farming community from Pickering to Port Hope. Through a liaison with the Whitby Em- ployment Centre for Students, the pool placed over 50 area students on the Zdanowicz farm at Taunton and Coronation Roads. "They have a pick- your-own operation there but they told us they had more strawberries than would A*jax bridge The following are the resuits of last week's play at the Ajax Bridge Club as reported by Dwight Oland. In the open section (average 108): North and South: Vera and Gene Creelman, 130.5; Evelyn Black and Phyflis Kelly, 125.5; Marg and Bob Kerton, 12.5; and, Peter Mott and Walter Michael, a tie with, Peter Jones and Otto Winnhnger, 118. East and West: Mike Norman and Irv Ashraf, 143.5; Walter Soetens and Truman Tuck, 139.5; Joanne and Ken Marden, 130.5; and. Lloyd Peel and John Miler, 115.5. In thse novice section (average 54): Bess and Russ Pickersgill, 70.5; Norma and Leo Cassidy, 62.5; Pat Hen- sley and Mamnie Carr, 59.5; Deanna and Bruce Babcock, 58.5; and Norma DeVille and Evelyn McNabney, 56. The club will ta holding a "Grand National Pairs" game on July 23. The club plays every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the St. An- drew's Community Cen- tre, 45 Exeter Rd., Ajax. The resuits of each week's play at thse club will ta reported ithe following issue of the Whitby Free Press. be picked that way, 50 could we send them sonne help," Piersma said. In the mornings Pier- sma went with the bus, supplied by Manpower in Oshawa, to pick up the student crew. There were regular stops, such as Anderson St. and Brock St., and Piersma ticked off the names as the students boarded. The bus took them right to the farm. Since the strawberry season is over now, that job is completed but there is a possibility that the pool may need apple pickers for the Whitby area this faîl, Piersma said. This would be for aduits, however, since school would ta in session. "A lot of ladies like to get out in the fresh air in. the fail, and maybe pick up a little extra money for Christmas," he said. The Farm Labour Pool was originally formed under the Land Board when tobacco farmers in the Bowmanville area were unable to find help. It now includes, under the federally sponsored Land Board, tobacco; dairy; apple; and vegetable farmers. "The pool functions like an employment centre," Piersma said, "but we deal strictly with agriculture." Although it bas been using Whitby students, it places adults of al ages ail year round. "We also operate a farm relief service," Piersma said. "If far- mers are sick or injured they can caîl us and we have people who can go in and do their work. " Piersma said he was hopeful the service would be expanded next year for students. etc. Then staff counsel the students, helping them to discover strengths and weaknesses, and making them aware of employers' expec- tations. Sometimes the em- ployer prefers to have the centre set up appoin- tments; sometimes the student must apply directly to the em- ployer. Staff also spend con- siderable time helping students to prepare for interviews. Students who are not finding work, Lewis said, are usually those "who don't realize that finding a job takes ef- fort. It is a job in itself. They may not dress ap- propriately for an inter- view; they may not have a resuone; they may not have bothered to find out what the job entails; or they may be too shy about selling themselves." Being appropriately dressed for an interview means, for a girl, wearing a skirt and blouse; for a boy, wearing a nice pair of slacks and a shirt and tie, according to Lewis. "Attitude is very im- portant," she said. An employer gets an im- pression of that attitude by the way the student dresses. "lStudents need to sel themselves to an em- ployer," she said. "They have to make hlm want to hire them. 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