Firm of individuals;

              Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."—Emerson
A FIRM OF
INDIVIDUALS By Irwin C. Rust, Personnel Partner Just as a living organism requires
oxygen, food and sunlight, a profes­sional
service organization like Haskins
& Sells has a constant need for well
trained, highly motivated people.
Without our human resources, the of­fices,
papers and other physical prop­erty
of our Firm would all be worth­less.
The strength and wealth of H&S
reside in the blend of mind and heart
that our people represent. Our Firm
has grown during the past seventy-five
years as we have attracted and devel­oped
good people. Should it ever hap­pen
that we would cease to attract
them, the consequence would be like
cutting off the fuel supply to the en­gines
of a jetliner in mid-flight.
When they opened for business in
New York in 1895, Messrs. Haskins
and Sells enjoyed a splendid personal
reputation as auditors, and this en­abled
these two men to gather around
them the people who formed the nu­cleus
of the Firm. In those early days
before the states had certification re­quirements,
many of the young accoun­tants
coming into H&S were not college
graduates. Since then, however, the
increasingly complex structure of our
clients, the involved nature of their
activities and the intricacies of tax law
have pushed the threshold require­ments
for a professional accountant
continually higher, and college training
has long been an essential for our start­ing
accountants.
In the past three years, the number
of college campuses to which Haskins
& Sells recruiters have gone each year
in the search for good people has more
than doubled. So has the number of
new accountants that our Firm hires
annually. There is no sign that this
search for talent will diminish in the
foreseeable future, because our reputa­tion
for professional excellence con­tinues
to stimulate our growth.
Today America's youth, particularly
our college generation, is caught up in
all kinds of change. For one thing,
black Americans are attending college
in greater numbers than ever before,
and they are entering occupations
which they previously thought were
closed to them. Another change is seen
in the number of young women who
are preparing for and entering a
broader range of occupations than they
had traditionally entered. Both blacks
and women are studying accounting
and entering the accounting job mar­ket
in numbers much higher than three
to five years ago.
There are the more obvious changes
in personal grooming and clothing
styles among young people which offer
H&S, in common with other employers,
food for thought about the criteria by