Despite Slump, Jobs Go Begging: Engineers, Teachers, Secretaries in Demand
IN a paradox on the nation's economic recession, thousands of specialized jobs are going begging while nearly 5.5 million American workers are unemployed.</br></br>a government report snows that a total of 17,954 jobs in various fields could not be filled locally last month by 1 the United States employment Service.</br></br>Employers reported shortages of engineers, social workers, teachers, nurses, draftsmen. technicians, machinists and instructors for deaf children.</br></br>DATA from employment service offices stretching from New York to Los Angeles also indicated a continuing demand for ÛÏwell-trained. competent secre-tarics, stenographers and I typists.Û 112 per cent of its labor force Jout of work, reported job i openings for specialists who operate electronic computers and machine bookkeeping systems.</br></br>Factory production workers. I however, have found the ÛÏno! help wantedÛ sign at nearly | all of the 1800 employment! service offices, Labor Department officials said.