European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tight labor Market continued irom Page 13 graduates Hava doubled from 3 percent of the total last year to 6 percent said Dawn Gulick of the College placement Council s salary Survey. Paullman said. There arc More Small employers Servici Lype employers recruiting. This seems to be giving interest in humanities  demand Lor business majors toss from 38 percent Asl year to 46 percent this year while engineering majors dropped from 49 percent to 38 percent. Science majors have received 10 percent of the Job offers this year up from 9 percent a year ago. Recruiting trends shows the largest increase in openings this year Are in hotel restaurant and  management with 2.9 percent More openings than last year. Advertising had the biggest decrease in openings top prospects in service professions by Randolph e. Schmid associated Presse engineering computers business services and health professions continue to provide the nation s top of prospects. Those areas have the Besl Long term career Outlook or Young people planning ahead reports Neil Rosenthal. Chief of the . Labor department s occupational Outlook division. The service industries Are the ones that Are growing especially the business services such As accounting firms and Legal  service businesses have grown faster than goods producing operations in recent years As rising incomes and living standards have helped produce demand for service workers. At the same time while imported goods have captured a share of the Market for american made products the same has nol occurred in the service business Field to any great Exlene. A labor department analysis of expected trends in fact Calls Tor As Many As nine out of 10 new jobs Between now and 1995 to be in the service sector of the Economy rather than in manufacturing or other goods producing activities. Service occupations cover a wide Range of employment from the lawyers and accountants mentioned by Rosin Hal to cleaning people Security guards die police and corrections officers bartenders and waiters and waitresses health workers were also selected for special mention by Rosenthal. A category that covers not just doctors and dentists but also nurses health technicians dietitians. Pharmacists and therapists. Dropping 1.4 percent according to the Survey. The recruiting Survey also revealed the Best places to find a Job Are on the two coasts. Scheetz said that s where technological advances Are spurring jobs opportunities. One of live employers said they planned to lest new College graduates for drugs and 95 percent of hem said they would t hire a candidate who tested positive for drugs. Five percent of employers said they never hire people who admit to smoking cigarettes cigars or pipes regularly on the Job while 2 percent Seldom do and 81 percent will almost always hire them. Twenty percent of jobs available to new graduates could be filled by paraplegics while 6 percent could be tilled by Blind applicants. Overall Job quotas for the handicapped increased Only 0.1 percent. Interest in teaching on the Rise n4w vat to tit p Strong Job growth if protected for the Field of social services hero a welfare worker conduct an interview. Employment in most of Trie health occupations is expected to grow faster than he average As the population growth especially in the number of older people increases the demand for healthcare according to the labor department analysis. Registered nurses nursing aides and orderlies Are expected to be among the leading new Job categories Strong growth is also expected Lor physician s ass islands medical record technicians and medical assistants. Automation however May reduce some of the growth among Laboratory technologists. Computer systems analysts and engineers Are also expected to see Strong Job growth Rosenthal noted. These groups will Benalil from increased military spending and from growing automation in Many areas of the Economy the department said. And general research is expected 1o Otter More jobs for scientists. Technicians who assist engineers and others should also see Good Job growth although changing technology can affect the prospects in some specific areas employment of travel agents Security sales workers and real estate agents is expected to grow faster or much faster than  the department  Lulf and part time jobs Are also expected to open for Cashiers and other retail workers As Well for bookkeepers accounting clerks secretaries and shipping and receiving clerks. Again however improved office machines could limit some of this growth. As offices add new machines to their inventories prospects for repair technicians could improve bul the department warns that machines Wilh belief reliability could reverse that. Other repair workers such As Aulo mechanics should see their Job pro specs improve at about the same Rale As population growth. But the Job Outlook looks belter Ihan average for construction workers Wilh household and business growth and modernization expected to create new opportunities. Construction employment is very sensitive to changes in the National Economy however the department warns. Another Field where Job growth is expected to be Strong is social services the department said but it cautioned that due to the number of people interested in these Fields Competition Lor jobs is expected in Many occupations especially for academic positions. Social and recreation workers in Public and voluntary agencies As Wett As for salaried positions for  enrolment and an abundance of qualified Job seekers is expected to Creale problems in finding College teaching jobs and employment growth for High school teachers is expected to be slow. Rising enrolment should improve prospects for Grade school teachers however. Reasonable Job growth is expected in advertising Public relations and print and Boa Casl communications stiff Competition or jobs in these occupations is Likely due to 1he Large numbers of people they  the Best prospects for writers and editors Are expected to be in business and Irac publications. Employment is expected to decline in most agricultural or forestry occupations and growth is expected to be slow in production jobs where Industrial robots and other improved technology will reduce the need for human workers Page 14 the stars and stripes