Benjamin L. Bolté, director of placement services, and Sarah Gordon Littlefield, a placement associate who specializes in science placement, took a stab at answering them.
Mrs. Anderson, 32, works at Independent Educational Services, a nonprofit school placement organization in Alexandria, Va., as the director of college recruiting and a counselor.
Some, too, were surprised by the scope of the developing service and its mandate to be much more than a placement service.
Exasperated, Talbot established a placement service, the Boston Wet Nurse Directory.
According to Irina Shumovitch, an educational consultant who runs a placement service for Russian parents, British education has an unbeatable reputation.
Al Martino, who owns Chef's International, a placement service in New York, says that former assistants to celebrity chefs like Daniel Boulud, Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck are in the highest demand.
His mother is the chief executive of Associated Social Resources, a placement service for social workers, and his father is a partner in Mallery & Stern, a law firm, both in Los Angeles.
After returning from Paris, Mr. Lang was the chef at Monzù, an experience that soured him on restaurants enough to open Culinary Stars, a placement service for private chefs that he still operates.
The website also has links with and contributions from Reach, a placement service for volunteers with management and professional skills An inspiration to those looking for new opportunities in retirement is its founder, Tony Clack, who launched the website four years ago.
isis also offers a placement service.
If you are close to a college or university with an education program, you will find they often have a placement service or office to which school districts routinely send vacancy announcements.
