Chapter V 
THE APPLICATION 
The Applicant 1 s First Impression 
The first impression which the youth receives when he visits 
the selecting agency to make application may have much influence upon 
his future attitude toward the Corps. It is of real importance, there¬ 
fore, that on his first visit each applicant should feel that he has 
come to apply for a man*s job and that the process of getting it is an 
orderly and business-like procedure. 
Many selecting agencies have given special attention to the 
reception of applicants. The reception room in which applicants must 
wait to be interviewed can usually be made, regardless of its physical 
limitations, a place in which applicants can increase their knowledge 
of and interest in the CCC program. A bulletin board with pictures or 
posters of camp activities will capture attention. A prominent listing 
of eligibility requirements will enable many applicants to determine for 
themselves whether they are eligible. If they are obviously ineligible 
(as, for example, on account of age), they may eliminate themselves 
without taking up the time of an interviewer. 
Written information about the Corps is available in various 
forms suitable for use in reception rooms. The weekly CCC newspaper 
"Happy Days "-2/ is excellent reading material for applicants who are 
waiting. Other kinds of suitable information can frequently be sug¬ 
gested or supplied by the State CCC Selecting Agency. 
Under all except the most unusual circumstances, selecting 
agencies can so arrange matters that prospective CCC applicants will 
have opportunity to secure an application blank, or, at least, to put 
their names on the list of interested applicants on any day when the 
selecting agency is in normal operation. To tell an applicant who 
has travelled a number of miles that "We are not taking applications 
today" is bewildering and disappointing to him. A register of names 
in the form of a card file is the device ordinarily used by selecting 
agents for recording brief essential data regarding applicants who 
express an interest in CCC enrollment and who are not immediately 
interviewed. 
Psychologically it seems desirable to place as much of the 
"burden of proof" upon the CCC applicant to reveal his qualifications 
for enrollment as can reasonably be done. As applicants for jobs in 
private industry, these same youths (who now wish to be enrolled in 
2 / Published by the Happy Days Publishing Company, 
Washington News Building, Washington, D. C. 
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