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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1950-05-04, Page 11Young People Should Know How To Sell Their Services :the days are over when we had more jobs tiampeople, su it is now up to you to sell yourself hi secur- ing a job. So why not start stow hi preparing yourself for that job? Normally; jobs are filled by three types of people: 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 jab itself. When should you start looking for a job? The ideal time to begin looking for a job is long before you must go to worlc, le that way you will have time to study vacs): tions -and to analyse your own .ability, Remember that when you begin loolc[ug for a job you are a sales- man selling a definite product: your- self. Decide what you are hest qual- ified to do, write out a complete inventory describing your otvu edu- cation, experience, capabilities, atld qualifications, This helps you to gel a good picture of yourself, It re- freshes your 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 cat help you make the pepper contacts. Decide how your should carry on 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 ate alti- tude of coufidetrce, 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 turned 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 you asked to see the manager. Looking 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 you are best qualified to do. Some of them may be in a position to Help you get a job, or tell you where you inay go. There is no Gama in asking a person if he has any suggestions. If he has been given a good impression of you, he may offer suggestions if he has nothing to offer you himself. You alight 1'1111 an advertisement in the "job -wanted" column if you have some special ability ar extra- ordinary job qualification. The average person out of a job does 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 111a11 or corner druggist you may learn if business is busy or slack, or even - the name of the men who do the hiring. Another good way would be to look in 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 them from 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 ohne young lady who answered six "help wanted" advertisements i11 0)11 dal', three Coming' Attraetion—The firs( Indian actress to pla._t• 0 top tole in an American movie is Radia Sri Dahl, above, of Ma- dras, Rediae i, one of India's learning classical rlattcet•s, by letter and three by telegram. From the wires she got three inter- views. Oue can hardly doulxt that the power to arouse interest was a factor in getting tthose interviews: From the letters site did not receive an answer. You can use the tele, plume to arrange an interview, if the luau likes your co1'versatiou, anti in that way saves you a lot of time, Some people secure jobs by the telepltot>e, You may use the public employ- ment ofices, or a private employ - mem agency, 1)0 not depend too march on a public ar private agency. Consider them just one job pros- pect. Call ou then frequently so they will not forget you, as they handle 0 lot of applications, 1' he Chamber of Commerce is another helpful organization. A person nlay enlist assistance from friends, former tea elhers, preachers, relatives; business asso- ciates, fellow church and chub mon- hers, etc. You would need a rec- ommendation and these people often prove helpful. Do not beat around the bush, as to say; but go to then in a straightforward away and ask their help. This "pull" does not enable a man to hold his job if he does 1101 do his work. Right or wrong, a pull sloes help a 0100 to get a job. This cold fact cannot be denied, but it is your ability to do time 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 watchntrap at the gate. If you use letters of recommen- dation, they must be well writen and attractive, You must plan the letters to break clown the employ- er's natural tendency to say "No" to job seekers who apply to him. It must be good enough to get by the secretaries who have been asked to weed out all except those of un- usual interest, Be specific about the kind of job you want and about your experience, strive to make your letter short, cutting out 00 - necessary words and thoughts, AI - ways remember that neat letters make good impressions, Be careful about spelling and punctuation, Use good paper, writing on one side. Do not base your request for work on sympatthy, Never mention sal- ary in the first letter, Wait until your prospect is sufficiently inter- ested, One common mistake of jobseek- 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 sane time, one should not try to take control of the intertiew 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 his 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 can 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, make good, and go imp the ladder. Laughter A Frenchman recently laughed himself to death, His friend told him a good joke, he began to laugh and went on laughing for three days 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 thin person to put 00 w eight. But it is also one of the finest eacrcises for people who have to sit clonal toast of the day, for it palls and pummels muscles all over and inside the body, producing a• similar effect to that of massage, That is why a faf man becomes thinner when he laughs a lot. The historian Hume, examining an old tealtnscr'pt written during the reign of Edward .11, found a suns of money set down in the private ac - vomits of the King --several crowns paid to somebody for -making .the ping laugh, Edward probably thought it was cheap at the price. There are very few passages of intentional humor in the Bible, Dean Inge once said that he could recall only tht'ee•verses in the Old Testament where laughter is men- tioned, except where someone is to he "laughed to scorn." There is an onu'ast tribe known as the Veddas of Ceylon to whom laughter is en- lircly foreign, No Vedda has ever been known to laugh, and when asked why, they reply, "What is there in this world to laugh about " Global Merchants Gather For In ional Trade Fair Eight -Nation Welcome to Canada's International T'adc Fair is posed by girls repreeeutin g (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 tur- baned Indiana, colorfully - dressed Portuguese and representatives of Many other nations. The occasion is Canada's third annual International Trade Fair, which will run 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 its 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 corners 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 Sian', Norway, Pakistan, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Atlstrali'd. Actually, 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 theta are jewellery from Europe, India and Australia; hand - tooled, leather goods • from Spain; ;. radium and chemicals from Yugo- slavia and Canada; cosmetics from France; bicycles and sporting goods from Belgium; coffee from Costa Rica; cheese front tropical JaiItatca; liquors and wines from Europe and South Africa; scientific instruments from the United States and Great Britain. While no complete figures for the past two faire have been issued, some available statistics indicate the tremendous volume of business transacted. For instance, last year the Czechoslovakian textile exhibit did about $4,000,000 worth of business, A British exhibitor rented a booth for $300 and sold merchandise worth $900;,000 in the two weeks of the fair. Besides actual goods on exhibit, information booths will be set up by various Canadian provincial governments and municipalities, British cities, and the governments of Pakistan and Yugoslavia to in- form nm nufacturers on the possi- bilities of opening branch plants in those areas. Some of the world's leading ship- ping and air transport companies will also take space to advertise their services for handling inter• national freight. S M 0 K Y, a fifteen - year - old horse, returned to his farm duties near Cuyahoga Falls, Ont„ with no ill effects from a collision that wrecked an automobile. * IN BROCKTON, the dogcatcher got a complaint from a woman that a puppy had been peeking in her bedroom window every night. t all Bty Johnny Stibli Is Only A Memory Now, And A Lesson F or You By NICHOLAS BLATCHFORD DEATH and a small boy have little in comment ---meeting• seldom and then only as if by chance—so it is not surpris- ing that Johnny Stibli's family still cannot quite think of him as dead. Johnny would have been five years old this month if he had not been run over by the truck. That was two weeks ago. 5) * 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, came back from overseas, Ile was three years old when his mother, whose married life had become a nightmare to. her, took Johnny and time new baby, -Bobby, back home 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 'vas already full of people — Johnny'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, ]sappy devout Cath- olic family and Johnny, who had a sort of inner brightness about him, became the center of it. * x, * 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 he 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. He was one com- plete bombshell, He just never let go." She laughed just to 'think of it. "He was very athletic," she said. "lie could ride a two -wheel bicycle with one hand. I've got it out in the shed, locked up now. He was always 011 it, "And roller skates! Oh, it was windy that day he learned. I was almost freezing standing outside watching hint. He was rolling up and down, hands out, and then bent down, holding his knees. "Not going fast, but learning good control. My, I was proud of hitt." '1 * * Mrs, Stibli's voice became serious Crow—serious and intent. "You know we arc religious," site said, "Johnny always wore a cruci- fix around his neck and at night he'd hang it on his bank bed. Ile just wanted it . . ," Johnny's grandmother, Mrs, Mary Spalding, an intense, emo- tional woman, said: "He wasn't afraid of anything. Not cars, trucks or devils. l•Ie had the bluest eyes She turned her fact away and wept quietly, "He wanted to go to school so badly," Mrs. Stibli said. "Ile stayed arouttd the older children all the time. That Monday, just before he was killed, the sister told my mother; '1tf.t's, Spalding, don't send Johnny to school next year. Let hire play just one more year. They have s0 little (Inc."l * * * The Saturday before the Monday EDITOR'S NOTE: Every town loves its chil- dren; lots of towns display that feeling with signs like the one at right. Bur lots of young- sters get run over by lots of cars just the same. Not many stories are arrritten 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 L 0 11111 1.OVli OUR CH11,9itliN 0 0 0 This is Johnny Stibli's mother. Those are Johnny's skates. when Johnny was killed, he carne in late from the movies. • "He 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 Inc pants off and 111en quickly—just like lightning—he threw itis shoes at ane. He kicked with both feet, right in any stomach. "He was awfully tired and all mixed up and I started to say something to hitt, but he just lay on the bed and said, 'I'm going to, die ... Flu going 10 die , . . t'm going to die.' "'Well, if you aren't the fun- niest looking dead guy I ever saw, I told hilt. "I was so anmscd. Because he was a hundred miles front dy ing." "He would do that for los e," Johnny's another said. * "The more you talk about it, the easier it gets," Mrs. Stibli said, "It was about two o'clock Monday afternoon when Johnny calve in, 1 was sitting here. I pulled my chair over to comb his hair, "My, you look good,' I said." Johnny stepped back, bronght his heels together smartly, made a little bow and kissed his hand to her. "'That was the last tittle 1 saw him," Mrs. Stibli said. "Later, I heard lte had been play- ing ball w'!tit some older boys and someone threw the ball at him and he missed it. Ther he must have run out in the. street. That's when it happened. "First thing I kuew of it was when Wendell Brooks — that's Johnny's friend -- cause running back and gave ane Johnny's pee knife. Johnny's been hurt.' he said. "Is he by himself? "'No. Some Wren are with hint.' "I don't think I asked any more questions; That was enough." * Mrs. Stibli'= father had just coin). home, and elle gut hint to drive her to the Boys Club. "As soon a- 11C 10015)1 cloy 1 17th Street and saw that little blond stead sticking out of that blanket. I knew," Mrs. Stibli said. "Blood was conning from Itis lead, and 1 • called to him, but be didn't eccognize ire." "11fothcr, you'd better wail in the squad car,' a policeman told her. "Is ire ennseiotts?" she asked. "'No," the policeman sail, "My first prayer was 'God, 11011'1 hurt his little brain."' 'Mrs. St 11111 said. ' I'Ie was sa brighh ".I tealiy began 10 posy 1111(1. Just as fast and hard as I could. A wo- man asked me if I wanted a drink, but I didn't want one. "I got in the ambnlance with Iain;, and the doctor was working on his lungs. We were just turning down 19th Street when I saw his ears were turning blue. "'He's not going to die, is lie? I asked tate doctor. "'All right now, mother,' he said. "I knew what that meant. I'd stare to keep my head if I wanted to stay with him. The siren was going, but I didn't hear it." ti. * Mrs. Stihli followed her boy into the hospital. "They tools 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 in the waiting room. Her ntotiter wanted to go in to Johnny. "You couldn't do any good," a policeman told her. "He wouldn't know you now." Another policeman came up am asked Mrs, Stibli some questions about Johnny, His name, his ad- dress. Telling it, she struggled to keep herself composed. "I kept saying `God is good,'" Mas. Stibli said. "Then I was put- ting a question mark on it. 'God is good?' "What I meant was 'God is wort• derful,' but what it came out was; "'Is this what He ,nears:' "Then 1 had an answer right bellied it. 1 had ae increase la faith." They brought Johnny Stibli lnonie \Vednesday and laid hint out in the front room in a white satin -tined casket. At first they wanted to dress hint in Inc cowboy suit and bandana. But when they decided to dress him in an Eton coat, long gray trousers and white shoes—"like lie tva, going to church," A'bat'e the way i1 was. Everybody sent• flowers and alt the kids cause over front Payne School, the Negro school in the neighborhood. They were friends of Johnny's, Mrs. Stibli's tnreaIli of Whitc .010 - 11,1 nations was sct over the Casket. and luhuut's baby ideetifieation'brarelet Wont Sib',4 dosp,.al was oa his wrist , • "l - r catty regarded garded thud c•hild," Mrs Stibli says. "Ile was some. thing special to me." Johnny's brother, hobby, is too young to understand 1110.1 of thi, ile is mart that Johnut has guar someplace, and seems io miss hire- but he is happy, the tray health., tiny little boys usually are. Ile has taken to wearing sonic of Johnny's clothes. "Johnny cant wear this shirt Item," he'll say. ",11151111C,"