career connections
Report on Job Outlook for the 1990s
Woricers in the 1990s will have one
advantage they have lacked for nearly
25 years: scarcity.
Hiis shortage will have profound
implications, labor experts say. The
flood of baby-boomers that have en-
> tered the labor market since the mid*
a960s will slow to a trickle because of
lower birthrates.
Many of the new employees in the
1990s will be unskilled, requring com
panies to train them and turning cities
and regions that can boast well-edu
cated workers into meccas fen* business.
£c(momists looking to the 1990s labor
brce say the trends they see offer clear
guidelines for job seekers. According to
ioward Fullerton, a demographic statisti-
ian with the Federal Bureau of Labor
>latisitcs, the ftve fastest-growing indus-
ries from now until the year 2000 will be
computer and data*processing services,
lealth servies, personnel services such as
ten^xxary agencies, health practitionMs and
miscellaneous business services such as
credit reporting.
It is clear, too, Fullerton said, diat there
will be an acute shortage of nurses. All
these openings are in service industries
underlying the historic shift away from
manufacturing.
Specifically the most job openings, a
projected 1.2 millicn, will be for retail sates
workers, followed by waiters and wait
resses, registered nurses, janitors and clean
ers, gener^ managers and cashiers.
More broadly, said Audrey Freedman,
an economist at the Conference Board, a
business-related search organizati(xi in New
York, the best opportunites, and the great
est demand, will be for j^s that require
independent thinking and skills of at least
the high school level.
(Excerpted from an article by Susan
Chira in the News and Observer on Oct. 8,
1989).
NOVEMBER CALENDAR
A represoitative from the North Caro
lina State Government Internship pro
gram will be at Meredith on Friday,
Nov. 17,1989 at 10 a.m. in the Career
Resource Room (second floor Cate
Center). The presentation which is
approximately 55 minutes, will detail
the program and ]»ovide an opportunity
for question and answer. Deadline for
application for this wonderful summer
opportunity is January 26,1990.
Wednesday, Nov. 15
MARKETING YOUR MAJOR
Workshop
Teaching certification students
4 p.in. Kresge Auditoritmi Cate
Monday, Nov. 20
GRADUATE SCHOOL
APPUCATIONS:
How to write winning essays
10 a.m. Career Resource Room
Presenter Dr. Jean Jackson
Auditions for Welty's "Main Street" Announced
The Department of Music, Speech,
and Theater will hold auditicxis for its next
dramatic production, Eudora Welty’s” Main
Street," on Dec. 4 and 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Studio Theater.
The play is an original adaptation of
three short stories by Eudora Welty and has
parts for at least 14 women and five men.
Ms. Welty granted Dr. Creagh permission
to ad^t the stories last summer and he has
been at woik on the script ever since. Since
Creagh came to Meredith six years ago, he
has been producing a series of works in
spired by the great prose writers of our
time. Other shows in the series have in
cluded Jane Austen’s "Emma," Franz
Kafka's "Josephine: The Mouse-Singer,"
and *Tales of the Jazz Age," based on the
memoirs and literary worlu of Hemingway
Fitzgerald, and other American writers of
the Twenties. **Most speech departments in
larger coUeges and universities do this sort
of thing. U.N.C.’s speech department is
currently sponsoring die premiere of a stage
version of Clyde Edgerton's "Walking
Across Egypt." It is a chance ftv students to
be involved in original works based on
quality literature.” The Welty show will
contain three of her best comic stories:
“Petrified Man,” “Why I Live at the P. O.,”
and “Lily Daw and the Three Ladies.”
Sets and sound for the production,
v4iich will be performed “in the round,” are
being designed by Connie Smith. Lighting
will be coordinated by Michael Digesu.
Smith and Digesu were re^x>nsible for the
recent spectacular set and lighting design
for "Man of La Mancha."
Women (and men) of all ages are
needed, and should prepare a short comic
speech from any play or from the stories
mentioned. Studoits may audition wi&out
a prepared monologue, but this is not sug
gested. It would be helpful, according to
Creagh, that the audition material exhibit a
“southern voice or accent.” That shouldn’t
be too difficult for most of the Meredith
community.
The play will be cast and scripts will be
distributed by the end of this semester.
Rehearsals will begin the first day of classes
in January, and the show will run from
February 14-18. Students, are reminded
diat an hour of academic credit is available
for p^ormers and crew. The production is
especially in need of costimie assistants,
stage-hands, and sound and lighting assis
tants. Students desiring more information
about working on the production should
call Dr. Crea^ (829-8528) or Connie Smilh.