3. To promote the training of the unprepared, and thus raise the general standard of efficiency.
4. To maintain records of women desiring employment, and of employers having vacancies.
5. To collect and circulate information as to various occupations.
6. To study and record the fluctuations of demand and supply in various occupations.
7. To publish advertisement lists, newspapers, and other printed matter, by which the purposes of the society may be advanced.
8. To promote and co-operate with other bureaus and societies having objects wholly or partly similar.
Nature of the Work.—The work of the Central Bureau consists largely in counteracting those evils of social prejudice and defective training which have hitherto prevented many women of the educated class from being able to earn their own livelihood. It therefore includes not only what is ordinarily understood to be the work of an employment registry, but also the more laborious and less immediately remunerative business of investigating possible openings for employment, promoting sound schemes for apprenticeship and training, and so advising and helping women as to enable them to make their services of genuine value to the community. Did space permit, it would be possible to give a long list of those women who have been enabled, through guidance received at the bureau, to fill satisfactorily positions of considerable responsibility and importance. By a carefully considered system of indexing and tabulation, the Central Bureau is able to make the results of its work available for the purposes of the statistician and the economic inquirer. The advantages of this system have been recognised by the committees of other women’s employment bureaus, which have now, with few exceptions, adopted the same method of tabulation. But while endeavouring to introduce improvements in method, the council of the Central Bureau are far from losing sight of the individual needs of each employer and applicant for work, realising that upon the full comprehension of individual circumstances the success of the work depends.
REGISTRY FEES FOR APPLICANTS
(Those for employers seem unnecessary for our purpose here)
Registration, covering a period of three months, 1s. 6d; Suiting fees, permanent posts on salaries not exceeding 10s. per week, non-resident, 2s. 6d.; resident, 5s.; not exceeding 15s. per week, non-resident, 3s. 9d.; resident, 7s. 6d.: not exceeding 20s. per week, non-resident, 5s.; resident, 10s.: not exceeding 30s. per week, non-resident, 7s. 6d.; resident, 15s.; not exceeding 40s. per week, non-resident, 10s.; resident, 20s.—being half per cent. on first year’s salary, non-resident; and one per cent. on first year’s salary, resident. Temporary posts not exceeding three months, one per cent. on salary for the term, but not less than 2s. 6d. Temporary post not exceeding one week, 1s. 6d. Suiting fees in every case are payable on engagement. Hours of interviews, 11.30 to 1, and 2.30 to 4.30, excepting Monday mornings and Saturdays. In order to save time, callers are asked to write for appointments. Fees for consultation, 6d. and 1s.