Career Lecture Series No. 5. Business Careers 31st January 1939

BUSINESS CAREERS I am very pleased to have the opportunity to come here today to address you on the subject of business careers, because I am convinced that the University authorities are entirely on the right lines in adopting the method of arranging for business men to express their views to you on this subject. [...] Nevertheless the Appointments Board stands as a symbol of the desire of the University to help youn'g men to take advantage of the education which thay have received and of the sympathy of the business world of Calcutta towards the movement. [...] It is one of the sorrows of life to the head of a business firm in Calcutta that he is unable to help one-hundredth part of the men who apply to be given a start in ife. [...] We pointed out the limitations for openings in existing firms and stressed that the present state of unemployment was not so much due to the lack of opportunity afforded to young Bengalis in business openings as to the lack of training in the essentials of business success instilled into them in their homes and colleges. [...] We attach the greatest importance to the latter and to our general estimate of the applicant's character, and you will surely agree that it is both in the interests of our own firms and also in the interests of Bengal itself that the greater encourage- ment should be given to the more efficient.