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r 4 the tribune thursday july 3 13u degree in journalism christopher shanahan son of mr and mrs patrick shanahan rr 3 claremont graduated recently with a ba degree in journalism from ryerson polytechnical institute and is presently employed on the editorial staff of the drayton valley western review drayton valley alberta editors mau jobseekers need patience dear mr thomas job hunting its challenging often discouraging should be rephrased often challenging and most often discouraging i dont know of any other experience that can be as demoralizing as a job search all of us know that sinking feeling only too well with this in mind i would like to pass along some helpful hints to you and your son to reduce not do away with completely for that is wishful thinking the number of negative experiences en countered in the job search process number of ap- plications the more applications or resumes that you send out the more replies you can hope to receive however if a 10 per cent response to the resumes is received the ap- plicant should consider himself fortunate so if you send out or com plete 10 applications and you hear back from one consider yourself lucky timing of the job search the summer months and the christmas season are the poorest times of the year to look for a job from an employers viewpoint they also produce limited results in recruiting the reasons for this are many during the summer vacancies can often be filled with students employees will wait until after their vacation to resign employers recognize that it is a poor time to recruit and will often postpone filling the vacancy until sep tember similarly the christmas season in many companies brmgs bonuses parties and other festivities and as a result an employee considering resigning would generally wait until january focus of the job search this is the key to your search and is most often not done many people even those with a profession will focus in on their search with shotgun rather than rifle first they dont stop to take stock of themselves and to say what do i enjoy doing most and least even at the tender age of 18 you can do this however by saying to yourself i dont enjoy paper work you can then make sure that the position does not involve a great deal of paper work by recognizing those strengths and directing yourself toward a line of work which will benefit from those v strengths your chances of obtaining a position improve and the opportunity for on- thejob success is heightened very often we are so blinded by the fact that we must look for a job that we forget about the most im portant person ourself that person who must perform onthejob for example i cannot type i studied typing in school however i cant type without looking at the keys if i were to accept a position as a typist my days with the company would be shortlived it wouldnt be from the lack of typing rather i couldnt keep up with the workload and would be fired or quit in frustration therefore focus in on what you can do and enjoy doing and then explore it someone just out of school can do that as well as anyone examine ithe subjects that you en joyed and the reasons why as well as those that you didnt like review your hobbies and your parttime jobs take a look at yourself and then decide on the direction that you want to take if you enjoy physical labour hard work and want factory work then indicate that on the application form organize your search contact as many companies as you can reply to ads approach your search aggressively and confidently expect some rejections but keep at it because pretty soon the law of averages will work in your favor you are quite right the balls m barrys court however he shouldnt wait for the interviews and hope for the best he should contact employers by telephone respond to advertisements and knock on doors until he has found the job that he wants the expression everything comes to he who waits is not true in the job search process you make your own breaks in this business ps you will find that most companies will only provide you with an application form to complete if you walk in off the street firms lack sufficient staff to interview everyone however if you respond to an ad vertisement and receive an appointment you are fairly certain of an interview sincerely joanne dacosta director of personnel thankyou dear editor i have just com pleted my year as president of the ballantrae and district lions club during my tenure of office many events were held that required advance publicity to make them a success this assistance was always freely provided by the stouffville tribune your article on our first horse show was first class in every way and typical of the high standard of coverage of our events may i express to you the thanks of all lions as well as my own personal thanks for your support over the past year sincerely herb peach president ballantrae and district lions ctab editors mail a truck route dear editor it seems like we truck drivers are always coining in for criticism if most people bad their way theyd run us off the road completely the suggestion mat an area of the w road be reduced to a maximum speed limit of 40 kilometres from the present 70 is in my opinion ridiculous theres not a trucker around whod adhere to that kind of restriction regardless of the number of tickets banded out by police were not to blame mat a school was built on a road that was also butt for trucks the a truck route this is a fact it wasnt con structed for school buses or kids walking or on bicycles its our road and should remain this way if parents of students attending whitchurch highlands school want 100 per cent assurance of safety they should petition the board to reroute their buses so that they come in from the north rather than the east and west in this way theyd miss the truck traffic com pletely truck driving is a livelihood for hundreds of people in whitchurch- stouffville surely we have some rights and erivileges instead of eing continually haravwd by motorists and pedestrians i take strong ex ception to the suggestion that most of us ignore the 70 km limit from warden avenue to woodbine i feel most of us abide by it however to cut it back to 40 km wouldnt be practical wed be forced to break the law or seek some other route its unfortunate that what we know today that the bloomington road is used primarily by truckers wasnt known when the school was constructed had it been a different site would likely have been selected sincerely ted shaw rr2 t stouffville fresh from the field corn on the cob markham its time once again for those annual corn roasts and weekly feeds of corn on the cob the sweet corn season has arrived twentyone year old mark oldfield a partner with jeff wood in the corn business says that their best market is their first market its that first taste after the long winter he said operating a farm on highway 48 three miles south of ringwood the men have a roadside stand which attracts many motorists they also sell their product at an outdoor market on finch ave weve been selling corn now for eight or nine years says oldfield ninety per cent of our business at finch is from regular customers be said the farm owned by jeff wood fields about 20 acres of sweet corn it is in season from the end of july right through to september the corn is picked daily to keep up with demand we plant the corn in stages said oldfield in an interview with the tribune that way it doesnt come up all at the same time be said the cornis planted in weekly intervals starting around the last week in april it is continually checked for quality and is sprayed every four or five days to control corn borer and insects oldfield who has a diploma in agriculture said that the weather has been just ideal for growing weve had just the right amount of rain and heat to produce good crops the prices are pretty much the same as last year according to oldfield the charge is 175 a dozen now and will 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