Reversing the Gap

Being with it has always been a demanding occupation. Consider the reverse Generation Gap evident these days on some campuses. With another hard-times graduation approaching, youngsters whose older brothers and sisters hooted button-down recruiters off campus are sprucing up, clipping their hair and donning coat and tie for company interviews. As Sterling Macer of General Electric puts it: "Students simply don't want to blow their chances for a job."

Ironically, it seems that in campus interview rooms today's student is likely to encounter the new American corporate swinger. Though not exactly freaked out in blue-tinted glasses, dashiki and love beads, many corporate recruiters have gamely tried to meet more than halfway their interviewees of the past few years. The result is that the recruiters frequently sport longer hair and brighter-hued shirts and ties than are worn by the scrubbed and sober students who are eagerly looking for straight jobs.

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