Chapter XIII 
POST-CAMP GUIDANCE 
Returning Enrollees 
When CCC youths return Prom camp to their home communities, 
on their own initiative they frequently visit again the agency vdiich 
selected them. Many have left the Corps at the end of one or two terms 
of enrollment without having located other employment# They return 
with high hopes of finding employment, but with no definite offers of 
jobs. They visit the local selecting agency either to obtain guidance 
and suggestion or to report to the selecting agent upon their experience 
in camp. 
Problem of Readjustment 
The CCC selecting agent can often serve as the link between 
the camp and the home community of the CCC enrollee, just as in the 
original instance he served as the link between the home community 
and the camp. Enrollees who have been away for some time may have 
difficulty in readjusting themselves to their home communities. For 
a period, their time and attention have been fully occupied. In their 
home communities they may be temporarily unemployed. Idle, they may 
quickly lose that self-assurance and pleasant demeanor which come with 
being fully and usefully occupied. 
No Paternalism 
The opportunity and responsibility of the selecting agent 
is not that of finding jobs for these youths. No course of action 
should be followed which extends and increases the dependency of a 
youth upon the selecting agent. Rather, there should be the policy 
of skillful questioning directed toward the purpose of getting the 
youth to see for himself what avenues of job-seeking and other ac¬ 
tivity are open to him and interesting to him. 
Referral to Employment Service 
As a counsellor, the selecting agent can ask such questions 
as will make the applicant realize and often express in his own words 
the course of action which he should follow. Usually that course of 
action would involve registration or re-registration at the nearest 
office of the State Employment Service. Many public employment of¬ 
fices give special attention to interviewing and placing "juniors” 
who have had a limited amount of work experience. To an increasing 
extent, furthermore, all public employment officials are realizing the 
important training and experience gained by ambitious young men who 
have served one or more full six-months terms of enrollment in the 
Civilian Conservation Corps. If selecting agents are in close and 
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