PROCEDURE FOR ASSIGNING YOUNG GRADUATES OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO THEIR FIRST JOBS

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• Publication Date: May 10, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY 'USSR
DATE DISTR./0 May 19514
'SUBJECT Procedure for lissigtdzig !bung Graduates of Higher NO. OF PAGES ) 50X1
Educational Institutions to their First Jobs
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In the USSR, great importance is attached to proper utilization of young institute! vaduidoella
In this regard, a government decree makes the following provisions: 50X1
(a) Because they have received their education at government expense, young institute
graduates are obligated to work a minima of three years at establishments selected
by the ministry and the educational institution*
(kJ) Refusal, evasion, or failure to appear at the designated place of work is a penal
offence and punishable by not less than three years in a corrective work Ca1IP0
/bung institute graduates are to be utilized on minor engineering.technical Jobs
(sector engineers, etc). It is forbidden to use young specialists in executive
capacities or in the administrative apparatus.
(d) The managements of organizations and enterprises are obligated to assure young
specialists proper living conditions and the chance to improve themselves technically,
Thus, the young specialist may not select his own place of work but must go where he is salty
In some educational institutions the procedure is to forward a young graduate's diploma to
his place of employment rather than to give it to him personally.
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, The following is the procedure for assigning the young specialist to his place of work: The
chief directorate for personnel together with the chief directorate for educational institutions
in the ministry first determine which organizations and enterprises are most in need of
personnel. As a rule, top priority goes to organizations located in faraway regions (she
Far East, extreme northern sections, rural areas). After this, about one month before
graduation the educational institutions are visited by special commissions composed of
representatives of the two above-mentioned chief directorates, Then, in conjunction with
the administration of the institute and the deans of the individual faculties, the commission
distributes the young graduates in various enterprises and organizations in such a way that
each graduate may have several to choose from, After this preparatory works the young graduates
are called in to the commission for individual interviews and after these interviews the place
of work is definitely decided upon. Those graduates who are T311 liked by the school
administration because of good grades or civic activity are given the best choices of jobs.
This right of choice does not mean that the graduate can go wherever he has a fancy for he
is limited to whatever vacancies are Tvailable to the commission*
After the process of assigning the graduates to their respective places of work is completed,
the commission reports back to 414'' ministry and the chief directorate for personnel inior=
the various organizations of Li,- impending arrival ef new personnel, indicating their names
and specialities.
After the graduate has defended his graduation thesis or passed the state examinations and
the diplomas have been made out, he is given a cash advance according to his future salary
and written travel orders to his place of work. The bookkeeping department of the institute
notes the advance in the travel orders and informs the administration of the graduates
place of work to that effect,
With his travel orders the young specialist arrives at his place of work where he is assigned
to a specific job. The asSignment depends on the manager of the organization and does not
necessarily correspond to that indicated by the commission in the traVel orders,
As indicated above, the young specialists are to be utilized in their technical speciality,
and this is generally adhered to by managers of organizations and enterprises. Upon completion
of higher educational institutions, young specialists are used as rank and file doctors,
teachers, agronomists, engineers, etc. Salaries vary according to the following considerations:
(a) The category of the ministry of enterprise.
(b) The job to which the young specialist is assigned,
(c) The region where the young specialist is assigned,
Salaries can vary between 600 and 1200 rubles per month. Lowest salaries are received by
doctors, teachers in rural areas, and people working in local industry, light industry or
the fool industry. Highest salaries are in heavy industry and the coal and petroleum
industries. By geographic areas, the highest salaries are paid in the far north, the Far East
and adjacent areas. Lowest salaries are in the central and southern regions of the European
part of the USSR.
Each graduate is entitled to one monthst leave with pay at the expense of his future place of
work, the pay equalling the monthly stipend he was receiving at the tine he graduated,
After the young specialist arrives at his place of work, he must settle accounts for the
advance he has received at the educational institution. According to the code of labor laws
and a directive of the former USSR Council of People's Kommissars of 23 Nov 31, institute
graduates must receive the following compensation from their place of work upon arrival:
The cost of transportation for the specialist and the members of his family from his
place of study to his place of employment.
The cost of transporting baggage from the place of study to the place of employment
on the basis of 240 kilograms for the head of the family and 80 kilogram for each
of the members of his family,
A special assistance grant based on half of one month's salary for the head of the
family and one quarter of a month's salary for each of the members of his family.
Per diem for travel time based on 10 rubles per day.
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If the accounting shows that the young specialist has more coming to him than he received ia
his advance, the management of his place of work must pay the difference. If the opposite is
true, the young specialist must pay the difference to the management of his Taace of esexlyvento
young people in the USSR are not always able to devote
themselves to the profession which they prefer and which would give then the most
eatisfaction. Personal desires and capabilities are not always enough. In She Soviet Union,
things are so arranged that people are utilized where they are most needed withlut taking
account of Personal interests. In some instances this can mean ,",sc, a person will not be a
good worker and receive the concomitant saisfactions. Most cee, a, can be divided into the
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A person was not able to enter an Institution where de could receive training x. is
chosen field because he failed aLe entrance examination, because of physical ie50X1
or for political reasons. Co-eaquently, in order to get a higher education, he is
forced to enter some other field and get his training in some other institution* 50X1
Finishing his education, eeee a person will 7terk without receiving any satisfaction
from his work and will enT: do as much as he seeds to get by.
The rare exceptions le this rule are people who are
motivated by a senss _a' professional ('.uty, The following will serve to illustrate
Malenkov. T. u-ushchev and comp af are astonished and disturbed by the fact that
the overwseinino majority of agricultural specialists have become ensconsed in various
directorates and ministries while only an insignificant proportion (70,000 out of
are worlang imAediately on collective farms or machine tractor stations, This can best
be explainee by the fact that most people who study in agricultural institutions are
there, TvT, (7,13.L. of interest in agriculture, but in order to get an educatio4 any
they can, Upon graduation they try in every way possible to get jobs anywh6re but on
she kolkhozes and machine tractor stations for which they have been trained,
many people with higher education (even engineers) who worked as sales personnel or
loiters in stores taverns or restaurants. People in this first category are mainly
nese who have received non-technical educations in the fields of agriculture, economics,
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The second category consists of people who have received training that mould fit, them
for the profession of their choice, However, they are dissatisfied with their work
because they have been ordered to a place or to a job Which was not to their liking but,
athieh the government found necessary. Of course in such people, their love for their
profession and their sense of duty overcome personal dissatisfactions and they become
fl3Ts workers. Dissatisfaction with onels work can also arise out of the peculiarities
of Ishe Soviet system and the very essence of totalitarian dictatorship. Such Pe�P.xl
are more likely- to be in the technical fields than in such fields as agriculture,
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(c) The third category- consists of those 11110 have been trained in the field of their choice
and who are satisfied with their work. Such people as a rale make fine workers. 50X1
with his work.
considered only the morale factor in a young specialists satisfaction
the results of his
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well the importance o/ seience and technology and the part played by specialists in their
development and there are adequate means of mobilizing knowledge and creative urges. Talented
specialists in the USSR have the possibilities and conditions suitable for effective work.
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