European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Starting salaries wednesday april 29. 1967 the stars and stripes page9 foe 1887bachelor degree graduates to thousands of rioters accounting ise use Fivi in Gmo a economie Finnoe other views Char soon eix Scot Zaport in recruiters note fall tech Job openings san Jose Calif up the 1987college recruiting season showed that while recruiters Tiu Are competing forthe beat minds among graduating be Niort the number of new High tech jobs has fallen sharply. College recruiting directors and officials in High tech businesses Sard the slump in the semiconductor Industry Anda slowdown in aerospace work following the space shuttle disaster mean there Arenow fewer technical Job openings for graduating , most companies still Are visiting campuses and competing at hard sever Lor top students in a wide Range of Profest Ioris mid Jerry Brody career place ment director at san lose state University. Traditionally High tech companies have been the Ter Gal rec Niiler Brady said. This year however finance and accounting majors an in demand having been targeted by the financial services Industry this is definitely a High visibility year for banking and accounting said Volanda Morales recruiting supervisor at Stanford University. Brody said school districts also Are recruiting heavily this year for teachers. At Lockheed missiles and space co. I Sunnyvale entry level Job openings Are Down significantly from a few years ago . De Tang project manager at Hewlett Packard co who was at san Jose state recently to talk to potential recruits said the same in the changed circumstances Man smaller Silicon Valley companies Are nil hiring entry level workers for technical positions. We Don t do much entry level hiring because we Don t have the Lime to train item said Scott Maneaty. President and chief executive officer at Sun Micro systems inc. In Mountain View a fast growing computer company expected to enter the Fortune 500 this year. The East coast recruiting trend appears similar. Many of the firms visiting this Yea have Many fewer jobs to fill said Rob Ert Weatherall. Career services director a Massachusetts Institute of technology. Bell labs has Only about 200 opening this year compared to about 1,000 in past years. Ism has been on of the leading if not the leading Recruiter for technical positions at Mit but this year they re Only Weatherall said semiconductor makers Are doing less recruiting ago. In other Fields the Oil Industry is Low. The Auto Industry is being careful to Hachemi Cal Industry is Stow Weatherall Aid there has however been a Rush of interest in technical students from Wall Street firms and management he added. This stems from the fact that on every trader s desk now is personal Linda Chernick associate director of Ca reer services at Harvard University said financial services has been the real growth Industry Here in the past couple years. We be seen a real increase in demand for Liberal arts majors,1 the said crediting banking and consulting firms Rotthe trend. While the nature of the High tech Industry has changed so have the priorities of the students entering the held. Salary is not no t anymore Brod said. Students Are More concerned with the nature of he work and the reputation of the company including Job Security and the cd male and culture of the Jim Osborn director of corporate relations and placement at Georgia Institute of technology agreed. Students seem much More serious about their careers he said. I Don t think salary is the lop thing. They re interested in an environment that is Condu Cive to career growth.1 executives escape mundane in evening at Alcatraz san Francisco a the Clink of Crystal Anechina replaced the Clatter of tin in Alcatraz mess Halls As the. Pinstripe set did time on the Rock before escaping something Al Capone and George machine gun Kelly never could do. My cod when you eliminate these tables you really can t imagine what it s like coming in Here and they close the door behind you Barry Doug lass of los Angeles said monday night As 600 executives dined and toured the Island in san Francisco boy that once housed some of America s toughest prisoners. The guests heard an eight piece band and saw laser Light show on a mess Hall Wall where the last breakfast menu from March 1963, was still hang ing. Bui the High Lech executives and institutional Money managers did t have to worry about Chok ing Down prison Coffee. Hambrecht & quist Thesan Francisco investment banking firm which threw the 172,000 Bash sprang for spinach salad roast Quail with chanterelles and Lime sauce risotto with port no vegetables and White Chocol Alc and Roach Damia nut torte with Creme a Glaise barges transported is 1,000 in lighting equip ment dozens of portable beaten lot Leti furniture thousands of feet of Extension Cord 4,000 pounds of food and hundreds of Gallons of fresh water for the Don t forget the wine the first time according to the National Park service that alcohol has been served legally on the Island. The 172,000 did t cover the Cost of rangers who oversaw the party Bill Hambrecht Hambrecht & quist s chief offi cer said he approved of Alcatraz for the party part of the firm s Isle annual technology Confer ence to get away from the Ordinary. It s a bit far out he said. But we work these people hard. They talk business for four straight Days and it s important to go out at least one night and have a lot of Howard Levitt spokesman for the Park service which administers the former Federal Penitentiary As a National Park said the party was an Experiment to determine the feasibility of such events for the future. Soma Malison one of the event s chief plan ners said the Bash had a certain timeliness because it comes at a time when some Wall a greeters refacing sentences in Federal the party pers ran into the Wavelike detention Celb in the infamous a Block and later had sup per at tables right outside the steel bars. Sixty table Shad been set for 10 guests each. What an existence. How could they live inhere asked Gary Haroian of Boston peering into 7-by-4 a-by-7-foot solitary confinement Ceils. Guests listened closely to the lectures of Frank new York drops to 34th place among most expensive cities Heaney who at 21, was the youngest guard Ever to serve on the Island. During dinner actors staged loud fights Between guards and inmates Belling one another and dashing up and Down corridors. During dessert Thea ton staged a breakout rolling around the. Loon smacking each other and climbing the barred peered through the barred mess Hall win Dow at the View of san Francisco that convict must have seen while serving time on the Rock a 20-Acrc Outcrop where Only scrub and Low Era Ligrow naturally. Bone chilling fogs whip among the decaying buildings. Treacherous current and riptide swirl around Alcatraz on each tide. Sharks Are not unknown in the Bay where the water it bet ten is and 60 degrees. Alcatraz opened in 1934, and for 29 Yean was the meanest prison in America housing such criminals As Capone Robert Birdman Stroud and George machine gun Kelly. " throughput the prison years of Alcatraz at least40 inmates tested the administrative brag that the Penitentiary we escape proof. At East 13 escape were tried the first in 1936, five men remain missing. Officials say no one i known to have escaped the Island alive. But Clar ence Anglin was reported by a relative to have sur Vived a break in 1962 and died a free Man in Iowa More than a decade later. Quality of life Geneva Switzerland up at least 33 major world cities Ore More expensive than new York be cause of the plunging value of the . Dollar a global Cost of living Survey said tuesday. Tokyo lops the list and is now twice As costly As Newyork while some other cities Are 50 percent Mote expensive the business International a company said. Business International is a business research publishing and com Liing company that conducts cast of living sur Veys at six month intervals for multinational corporations. Officials said the latest Survey covered 102 cities worldwide and new York was in 34th place against 20th position in the previous Survey. Figures As of Jan. 31 made Tokyo the world s mos expensive City at 191 Points or 91 percent above new York s base 100 Points. Geneva and Zurich were Europe s most expensive cities at 134 and 131 Poi Jils respectively. But the Dollar continued to fall sharply after Jan.31, so Tokyo is now definitely More than double new York while Geneva and Zurich Are around 50 percent higher a business International spokesman said. Most West european cities were above new Yorkin the Survey but now those that were slightly cheaper like London and Madrid Spain Are probably More expensive As Well he said. Surveys Are based on a weighted Index for costs of a Foo shopping Basket alcoholic beverages household supplies personal care items tobacco utilities clothing Domestic help recreation entertainment and transportation. The findings arc widely used by companies in paying cosi of Livin compensation to expatriate personnel. Hun i mum my Hgt Tom 1 h10 n , tin a Xor Hurt. to we Amer of gnaw it gun can Many a
