Trained Men Wanted

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 874, 18 January 1930, Page 5

Trained Men Wanted

PROPER TRAINING IS ONLY WAY TO SUCCEED Opportunities in New Zealand

i 1930 is here. The holiday season | -1 ! is over and a new year of work is | < beginning —wliat does this mean to j 1 the hundreds of boys and girls who | have just left school, and are looking | < forward to getting their first posi- i tion? What does It mean to all those i j who are dissatisfied with their present - | job and were thinking of "doing i | something” next year? I Does it mean the start of a long : | career of useful service, happy and i j prosperous, or does it mean merely 1 i an Incident in a series of odd jobs that : I might and might no-t be continuous? 1 The answer lies in correct prepara- i I tion —in short, are you prepared for i ! THE job, or are you hoping to pick ; j up A job? For today is the age of specialisai tion, and the outstanding demand of | every office, factory, warehouse and ; 9 shop is for people who are prepared. < I Employees who can do the work right, I who can eliminate waste, who can • ■ carry on without supervision—these I are wanted, not merely tolerated, but I of course they must be trained. ■ Assuredly it is only the man who I has prepared himself by study that | can hope to get his start and to play I his part in the intricate social organ--8 isation of these modern times. It is a he alone who can hope to attain sucI cess and -take his place among tile B big men of industry and trade. The old “free-alid-easy,” “happy-go--1 lucky” days are fast departing, never 9 to return. Efficiency is the present--9 Say watchword of the business world. 4 Our national life and prosperity I depend upon the effective develop--1 men of our .magnificent resources, ■ and the conversion of our poten- ■ tiai into actual wealth. These Ej desirable things, in their turn, depend B upon the organisation of the personal jj qualities of people. Scientific and 5 thorough training will make bigger ■ men, and bigger men will do bigger S tilings and make better use of the bigy ger opportunities of personal service to '

the community; and, naturally, will enjoy the greater material reward of j their increased usefulness. New Zealand is a wonderful country of infinite possibilities waiting only for development. She possesses, yet untouched, sources of prosperity and wealth beyond the dreams of the most sanguine of her people. We produce those commodities that must inevitably become increasingly scarce throughout the world. The market for our butter and our wool is expanding every year. As the population of the great manufacturing cities of the densely peopled areas of the earth increases, the demand for our products must increase with it. Competing for our wool we have buyers from the British Isles, the United States, France, Germany and Belgium, while our output of butter and cheese is increasing by leaps and bounds. The manufacturing industries are developing on every hand. At no time in the history of our j Dominion were the prospects so good or the future more certain and assured. It needs no prophet to tell us that we are now at the beginning of a big up-grade movement of world prosperity. The exact point at which the movement will culminate no man knows; but everyone knows that to take advantage of the splendid opportunities it will afford, the young man’s powers and possibilities must receive efficient training; he must prepare himself by education to reap the harvest when it is ripe. To take this tide of prosperity at the flood, old haphazard rule-of-thumb processes must give place to the latest and best methods education can devise and our citizens command. In competition for the big rewards that will fall to the lot of accountants, finnaciers, managers and proprietors in every branch of commercial and j industrial activity, specialised train- ! is the one essential factor.