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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1950-05-04, Page 3Young People Should Know How To Sell Their Services The days are over when we lata( more jobs than people, -so it ie now up to you to sell yourself in secur- ing a job. So why not start now in preparing yourself' for that job? Normally, jobs are filled by three types of peoples those with out - Standing ability, those who have an inside "pull," and those who know how. if you have already selected the type of occupation you wish to enter, the job is to find the job itself. When should you start looking for a job? The -ideal time to begin looking for a job is -long before you must gr, to work. In that way you will have time to study voca- tions and to analyze your own ' ability. Remember that when you begin looking for a job you are a sales - 1050 selling a definite product: your • - self. Decide what you are best qual- ified to ale, write out a complete inventory describing your own edu- dation, experience, capabilities, and qualifications. This helps you to get a good picture of yourself, It re- freshes yotu• mind on "talking points" which you can use in sell- ing your services, Next, make a list of employers or companies in your locality that would be most likely to have a job of the kind for which you are qualified. You might also list people, organizations or employment agen- cies that you feel can help you make the proper contacts, Decide how you should carry ou your side -of the employment interview, and ways and means to follow up your job prospect after the interview. A job is not a matter of luck, so • go out to get a job with 101 atti- tude of confidence, determination and self respect, If you really want work, you must keep at it, You should know the exact mune of the individual to whom you wish to apply, and talk to no one else about the job, or you may be mimed away without an opportunity to see the person who could have helped you. If you would ask to see Mr, Jones, for example, your chances of getting inside the door would be better than if yott asked to see the manager. :cooking for a definite person gives you more confidence in yourself. Let your friends and acquaint- ances know that you are looking for a job. Be sure that they know what yoti.ate best qualified to do. Some of them may be in a position to help you get a job, or tell you where you may go. There is no harm in asking a person if he has any suggestions. If Ire has been given a good impression of you, he may offer suggestions if he has nothing to offer you himself. 'You might run an advertisement hi the "job -wanted" column if you have some special ability or extra- ordinary job qualification, The average person out of a job docs not have the money upon which to gamble, so therefore it might be a worthwhile experiment. It would be worthwhile to watch the help wanted columns closely. Small employers very often resort to this method of making contacts with applicants, From the gas station man or cornier druggist you may learn if business is busy or slack, or even the name of the sten who do the hiring. Another. good way would be to look iu the classified telephone directory, especially in large cities or communities, This is a good way of obtaining names of compan- ies in different lines of business. List the names of the concerns and then take a few days looking up the companies and see what you think of thele front the outside, as you can tell a lot from the outward appearance of a place of business. The telephone and telegraph Have the advantage of commanding at- tention. There was out young lady who answered six "help wanted" advertisements in one day, three Corning Attraction—The first Indian actress to play at top tole in an American movie itt Radha Sri Ratti, above, of Ma- dras,kadha is one. of lndia's leading classical dancers, by letter and three by telegram. Front the wires she got three niter - views. Otte can hardly doubt that the power to arouse interest was a factor in getting tthose interviews. From the letters she did not receive an answer., Pott Can rase the tele- phone to arrange an interview, if the man likes your eouversatiotr, and in that way saves ynu a lot of time, tonie people secure juhs by tite telephone, You stay use the public employ- ment offices, or a private employ - mem agency. 1)o not depend too much on a Public or private agency, Consider them just one jobpros- pert. Call on tltens frequently so they will not forget You. ars they handle a lot of applications, '1'•he Chamber of Cotntnerce is another helpful organization, A person may enlist assistance from friends, former tea idlers, preachers, relatives, business asso- ciates, fellow church and club mem- bers, etc, You tyould need a rec- ommendation etoumuendatiot and these people often prove helpful. Do not beat around the bush, as to say, but go to them in a straightforward way and ask their help, This "pull" does not enable a titan to hold Itis job if lie dues not do Itis work. Right or wrong, a pull does help a man to get a job. This cold fact cannot be denied, but it is your ability to do the work that will hold the job for you, A letter of introduction is very good. It gives you common ground to begin with, and a sense of con- fidence. It sometimes helps you to get by the information clerk, or watchman at the gate. If you use letters of recommen- dation, they must be well writes and attractive. You must plain the letters to break down the employ- er's natural tendency to say "No" to job seekers who apply to him. It mist be good enough to get by the secretaries who have been asked to weed out all except those of un- usual interest. Ire specific about the kind of job you want and about your experience, strive to make your letter short, cutting out un- necessary words and thoughts. Al- ways remember that neat letters make good impressions. Be careful about spelling and punctuation, Use good paper, writing on one side. leo not base your request for work on sylnpattlty. Never mention sal- ary in the first letter, Wait until y'otir prospect is sufficiently inter- ested. Otte common mistake of job-seels- ers is that they wait for the pro- spective employer to take the initia- tive in dragging ou qualifications, purpose of visit and information about yourself. If you can enter, take the initiative and tell a com- plete, well -organized story about yourself; it will be to your favor, for hardly one out of a hundred realizes the importance of standing on his own two feet, At the same time, one should not try to take control of the intcrtiew from he employer. Now you are ready for your inter- view. Above all, be well drsesed, and neat in appearance. You do not know how much this helps sell your services. Another thing, self- confidence is essential and nothing will give it to a person more than knowing that he looks itis very best. After you have a job, do not try to sell yourself further to your em- ployer by words: put some work behind it and he will see what you eau do and that will go farther than words. Do what he tells you and listen, learn, and above all, live up to the qualities and abilities by which you sold your services, It is up to you to stay on, stake good, and go up the ladder. Laughter A :Frenchman recently laughed himself to death, IIis friend told hint a good joke, he began to laugh and went on laughing for three clays and nights until he collapsed and died. "Laugh and grow fat,' is very sound advice for thin people, but for people who are fat already, it would be equally sound to say "Laugh and grow thin," Laughter gives rise to a cheerful and con- tented mind. It stimulates the glands and digestive organs and so helps a titin person to put Dar 1( eight. But it is also one of tite finest csercises Inc people who have to sit down most of the day, fur it pulls and puttngels muscles all over and inside the body, producing a similar effect to that of massage, 'filet is why s fat man becomes thinner when he laughs a lot, The historian Hume, examining an old manuscript written during the reign ni 1?d ward It, found a stint of money set clown in the private ac- counts of the King—several crowns paid 10 somebody for staking the Ring laugh. Edward probably thought it was cheap at the price, There are very few passages of ittlentional humor in the Bible, Dema Inge once said that he could recall only three verses in tate Old Testament where laughter is men- tioned, 'except where someone is to he "laughed to scorn." There is an outcast tribe. known as the Veddas of Ceylon to whom laughter is en- tirely foreign. No Vedda has ever been known to laugh, and when asked why, they reply, "What is there in this world to laugh about " +Gtlolaal Merchants Gather For rlltern io. o,al Trade Fair Fight -Nation Welcome to Canada's International Trade Fair is posed by girls representing (left to right) France, Scotland, Norway, Canada, Holland, China, Italy and Sweden. These girls worked at the exhibits at Last year's fair, By JAMES MONTAGNES Toronto—For about a week and a half, in late May and early June, this metropolis will be transformed into an international market place, Mingling with business -suited Can- adians and Americans will be tuts batted Indians, colorfully . dressed Portuguese and representatives of many other nations, The occasion is Canada's third annual International Trade Fair, which will ram from May 29 to June 9. A few months later, the U.S. will stage its first such fair in Chicago. The big fair is based on the in- ternational trade fairs which have been common in Europe for cen- turies. Some 60,000 buyers from all parts of the world have a chance to inspect world-wide merchandise and meet sellers who conte from remote corner's of the globe with rare goods. American and Canadian business men can look over Swiss watches, Italian dolls, English textiles. Simi- larly, their products will be on dis- play to the -keen -eyed merchants of Siam, Norway, Pakistan, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Australia, Actual(', the trade fair is a great many industrial exhibitions under one roof, The largest number of exhibitors represent textile indus- tries, but there are a myriad other products scheduled to go on public display. - - Among theist are jewellery from Europe, ,India and Australia; hand - 1,0o1,.4 -leather gontis trent Spain; radium and chemicals from Yugo« slavia and Canada; cosmetics frons Frawcc; bicycles and sporting goods from Belgium; coffee frons Costa Rica; cheese front tropical jatnaic'a; liquors anti wines from 13urope and South_ Africa; scientific instruments front the United States and Great Britain. While 110 complete figures for the past two fairs have been issued, some available statistics indicate the tremendous volume of. business transacted. For itistauce, last year the Czecltosluvakiatt textile exhibit did about $4,000,000 worth of business. A British exhibitor rented a booth for r31t0 and sold merchandise worth $900,000 in the two weeks of the fair, Besides actual goods on exhiltit, information booths will be set uI, by various Canadian provincial gover,,meuts and municipalities,. British chits, and the governments of Pakistan and Yugoslavia to in- form manufacturers ou the possi- bilities of opening branch plants in those areas, - Some of the world's leading drip- ping and air transport companies will also take space to advertise their services for handling inters national freight. SMOKY, a fifteen - year - old horse, returned to his far;tt duties near Cuyahoga Falls, Ont., with no i(1 effects from a collision that wrecked an automobile, * * 5 IN BROCKTON, the dogcatcher got a complaint front a woman that a puppy had been peeking irk her bedroom window every night, atIi 11 Johnny Stibli Is Only A Memory Now, And A Lesson F or You By NICHOLAS BLATCHFORD DEATH and a small boy have little hi common—meeting seldom and then only as if by chance—so it is not sttrpris- ing that Johnny Stibli's family still cannot quite think of him as dead. Johnny would have been five year. olei this month if he had not been run over by the truck. That was two weeks ago, * JOHNNY STIBLI was a 10 -pound baby when he was born, his mother remembers, and he was 10 months old when his father; a soldier, carne back from overseas. He was three years old when his another, whose married life had become a nightmare to her, tools Johnny and the new baby, Bobby, back hone to live with her mother in Washington. This is where Johnny began to grow up. The house is big and airy and filled with sunlight. 'When the Sti- blis moved in, it was already fall of people — Jblinny's middle-aged grandparents and his great-grand- father and several aunts and uncles who weren't many years older than Johnny, himself. It was a big, happy devout Cath- olic family and Johnny, who had a sort of initer brightness about hint, became the center of it. Johnny's mother, Bernadette, is a young, pretty girl with a fresh, open face like the cover on an outdoor magazine, When she talks about Johnny her face lights up and she laughs when she remembers how ise was. "Johnny," she says, and the name conies out full of tenderness, "Johnny was an extremist. He ran hot and cold. When he loved you, he just loved you. He was on the gar- age roofs and fences and in the al- leys all the time. FIe was one com- plete bombshell. I -Ie just never let go" She laughed just to think of it, "Up was very athletic," she said, "He could ride a two -wheel bicycle with one hand. I've got it out in the shed, locked up now. He was always on it. "And roller skates) -Oh, it was windy that day he learned. I was almost freezing standing outside watching him. Ile was rolling up and down, handsout, and then bent down; holding Itis knees, "Not going fast, but learning goocl control. Ary, I wan proud of ]situ." s * Airs, Stibli's voice became serious now—serious and intent, "You know WE arc religious," she said, "Johnny always wore a cruci- fix around his neck and at night he'd hang it on his bunk bed. 11e just wanted it,.," Johnny's grandmother, Mrs. Mary Spalding, an intense, emo- tional woman, said: "L-.fc wasn't afraid of anything. Not cars, trucks or devils. FIe had the bluest eyes .. Site turned her face away and wept quietly, "He wanted to go to school so badly," Mrs, Stibli said. "He stayed around the older children all the tilne, That Monday, just before he was (tilled, the sister told my mother: 'Mrs. Spalding, don't send Johnny to school next year. Let hies play just one more year. They have so little time." w * * The Saturday before the Monday y EDITOR'S NOTE: Every town loves its chil- dren; lots of towns display that feeling with signs like the one at right. But lots of young- sters get run over by Lots of cars just the same. Not many stories are written about them, Here's one with unusual human im- pact. It first appeared in the Washington Daily News, but it could be any place—your own street, even your own small boy. You could even be the driver, for it doesn't have to be your fault for a little boy to die. It could be his. You have to look out for him, too. S W! WIi Low oi1R <;HILI),uiNI 0 0 • This is Johnny Stibli's another when Johnny was killed, he carte in late from the movies, "fie was tired,' his grandmother said, "and I carried him upstairs and put hint on the bed. I started taking his shoes off and then I pulled his pants off and then quickly—just like lightning—he threw his shoes at Inc, :FIe kicked with both feet, right in my stomach, - "He was awfully tired and all nixed up and I started to say something to hint, but he just lay on the lied and said, 'I'm going to die , . , I'm going to die .. going to die.' 'Well, if you aren't the Nu- ttiest looking dead guy 1 es es saw, I told hint. "I was so amassed. Because he was a hundred utiles from dying," "He would do that for love," Johnny's mother said. * * "',Che more you talk about it, the easier it gets," Mrs. Stibli said. "it was about two o'clock Monday afternoon when Johnny cattle in. 1 was sitting Isere. I pulled my chair over to comb his hair. "My, you look good,' 1 said." - Johnny stepped back, brought Ida steels together smartly, mall a little bow and kissed his hand to her. "That was the last time I saw Those are Johnny's skates. hint," .Mrs. Stibli said. "Later, I heard ire had been 1115, - ing ball with some older boys and someone threat- the ball at trim and he missed it. They he must have run out in the street. '.[`hat's wizen it happened. "First thing 1 knew of it was when Wendell Brooks — that's Johnny's friend -- came running back and gave me Johnny's pre• knife. Johnny's been- hurt,'. he said. "Is Ile by himself? "'No. Some men are with hitt.' "1 clan's thin(: 1 asked any mere gilestions. That was enough." h V: Mrs. Stibli's father had 51st i:otnc atone, and she gut hitt to drite be. to the Boys Club. "As soon as % e Im'mal dot lith Street and saw that little blond head sticking out of that blanket, I knew," firs. Stibli said. "Blood • was coming front his head, and- I called 16 him, bol lie didn'1 rccogitiz use," "Mother, you'd hettet wait in theu squad car," a policenuut talc] her. "Is be.conscious?" she asked. "Ne,," the policeman said. "My first prayer was 'God. don't hurt his little brain,' ' Mrs. Stdbh said. "I-15 was so bright. "I really began to prat last, Just as fast and bard as I could, A wo- mtan asked ane if I wanted a drink, but I didn't want one. "I got in the ambulance with hint, and the doctor was working on his lungs. We were just turning down 19th Street when I saw his ears were turning blue. "'Ice's not going to die, is bei' I aslced the doctor. "'All right now, another,' he said, "I knew what that meant, I'd have to keep my head if I wanted to stay with him. The siren was going, but I didn't hear it." * * Mrs. Stibli followed her boy into. tate hospital. "They took Johnny right into the middle of the room and cut his shirt and long underwear up the back," she said. "There were five or six doctors there." Later, Mrs, Stibli joined her mother on a bench its the waiting room. Her another wanted to go iu to Johnny. "You couldn't do any good," a policeman told her, "He wouldn't know you now," Another policeman came up and asked Mrs, Stibli some questions about Johnny. His name, Itis ad- dress. 'felling it, she struggled to keep herself composed. "1 kept saying `God is good,'" Mrs. Stibli said. "Then I was pra- ting a question stark on it. 'God is good?' "What 1 meant was `God is wotn- derful.' but what it cause out was: "'Is this what He means??' "Then 1 had an answer right - behind it. 1 had an increase h faith." They brought Johnny Stibli home. \Wednesday and laid hint out in the front room in a white satin -lined casket. At first they ttauted to dress (tint in his cowboy suit and bandana. But when they decided to dress him 111 an Eton coat, long gray trousers and white shoes—"like he was going to church." That's time way 1t was. Everybody sent flowers and all the kids came over front l'ayne School, the Negro school in the neighborhood. They were friends of Johnny's. Mrs. Subli's nreath ut whits cat, nation 1(.15 set Dyer the casket, aria - j1I Ittn baby identification bracelet from sihlc} 1 ospt,al 1105 1) blit v visa l really regarded that Airs, Stibli says. ,rile t1t. solve. Ming special to me." lohnnv's brother, Bobby. is too otnig 10 uudcrstand 111,11 of this. He is aware that ,Johnny has gone. .,aephie , and scams 10 miss his•• n hilt he is happy, the way healthy, tiny little boys usually are, 11 e has taken to wearing of Johnny's clothes. "Johnny can't wear this shirt now," hell say, "Just nth" same