Among the full-time employees are a placement director, who keeps track of where the horses go and what happens to them, and a fund-raiser.

When the law school's placement director, Lyn Davis, talks about the 80's, she looks skyward and says, "That all seems very long ago."

The coordinators are guided by placement directors.

"I have an administrative assistant and a computer that performs all of the functions of the previous placement director," she said.

"I used to spend a lot of time inviting schools to come see us," says Peter Anderson, St. Philip's placement director.

Paul remembered that he had promised this man, in the panic of the moment, to speak to Matheson, the placement director, about the son.

The bride is a placement director at Kelly Law Registry in New York, a company that recruits lawyers and paralegals.

His mother is the placement director at Tidewater Tech in Norfolk, Va.

She works as the placement director for the American Conference of Cantors.

This fall, employers went "deeper into the class" to fill their interview schedules, Dawne M. Smith, the placement director, said.