Bread and Butter Tips

Homosexuals Can Get Jobs And Keep Them!

What was to have been a panel of four (two men and two women) qualified persons in the personnel and employment agency fields wound up with just two WOMEN at the December Mattachine Society public discussion moeting. However, the gals were not daunted by the absence of their male cohorts and proceeded, with the adept direction of Dr. Vera Plunkett as moderator, to give the predominantly male audience some very apt tips on employment and the homosexual.

Helen Sanders, publications director of the Daughters of Bilitis, who is experienced in the printing trades and the retail store field, pointed out that the prospective onployee has his services, a very marketable product, to sell. "Anyone with fears about a job should examine himself and find out what he has to offer," she said. "No employment questionnaire asks other than are you a male or a female certainly not if you are a homosexual. This problem comes into being only if you yourself bring it to the job."

Joyce McCreery, who previously served as personnel interviewer for a large paper company, conducted a sample interview using a member of the audience as a guinea pig. She brought out the fact that the firm she worked for checked the three previous employers and investigated further where there were very short periods of employment. She stressed the importance of self-confidence and ability to express oneself about the job desired as well as the necessary qualifications for the particular job.

Both speakers pointedly advised the job applicant to fill in the lapses of time in their work records regardless. "But by all means remember what you said!" Miss Sanders hastened to add.

That the undesirable service discharge is not the hazard it has been supposed was also brought out. Many have been bonded, and many others are working on jobs even though the

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