A NA LVTICA L EDITORIAL
December 1972, Vol. 44, No. 14 Editor: H E R B E R T A. LAITINEN
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The Employment Situation THEO c T o n m 2 issue of Chemical and Enqineering LVezcs featured a comprehensive study of employment for chemists and chemical c'11 g'ineers in 19%. Cnemplopment for all chemists and chemical engineer.: is currently about 3%, although it is considerably higher for ncw graduates. It appears that the immediate prospects for improvcment arc not bright, but at least the deterioration of the past few yearc ha. ceaqcd Of special intcrest to analytical chemists is that the areas of production and quality control and analytical chemistry are listed ab among those of the highest demand. Several fields such as forensic icicncr, clinical chemistry, and environmental science, which are listed as carcer arws of expanding opportunity, are closely identified with analytical clwmistry . Analytical chemists by training and experience arc' morc vcr-atilc than the average chemist. and can therefore hopr to qualify for a lnrgrr fraction of the vacancies, many of which are described in highly yccializrd terms. W'hile it is gratifying to find analytical chemists in an exceptionally favorable position, there is little cause for rejoicing about the employment situation at the present time. A shortage of positions in chemistry as a whole must be of concern to all types of chcmists, bclcawc the vacancies that do exirt will be subject t o competitive prcqsurri. -4q a result, jobs may be filled by people neither really trainrd for. nor enthusiastically interested in them. Because of the length of the educational process, there iR a built-in time lag of several years in the supply of new graduatc.h, and it may turn out that a shortage will exiit once more in five to ten years. In the meantime, painful readjustments to positions of lower choice appear to be in prospect for many chemists and chemical engineer3 until supply and demand come more nearly into balance.
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