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 advertisements. If an employer asks for a personal interview, be on hand at the first hour named, not the last, and be prepared to take any test which may await you. If he asks for an application by mail, make this as brief as possible and to the point. State your qualifications, including speed in taking dictation, the machine you use, and your references.

A very good time for an out-of-town girl to apply for work in a large city, like New York, Boston or Chicago, is July ist, when regular stenographers begin to take vacations. Agencies then enroll "substitutes." A girl who is quick and adaptable will be kept busy all summer as substitute; then in the fall a regular position is sure to crop up in one of the offices where she substituted to the satisfaction of all concerned.

The small-town girl coming to the city will find that most of the advertisers offer six or eight dollars a week. If she is in dire need of a position, she must start at this salary and then watch for something better. If she really is an expert, she can find something better by waiting, provided she enrolls with the right agency and makes a favorable impression.

Fifteen dollars a week is the average salary of a competent girl in New York. The exceptional girl works her way up as high as twenty-five or thirty dollars a week. In many small