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title: It Will Help You Get a Job!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/it-will-help-you-get-a-job-1945/
description: A young woman in a graduation cap and gown holds a rolled diploma under the red headline 'It will help you get a job!'.
section: Collection
---

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# It Will Help You Get a Job!

A young woman in a graduation cap and gown holds a rolled diploma under the red headline 'It will help you get a job!', above a panel about USAFI correspondence courses with a helmeted soldier's face. The tell for card-stacking is the list of benefits (300 courses, academic credit, $2 for all costs) with no limits or difficulties stated.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
It will help
you get
A JOB!

Through USAFI you can study for your
school diploma while in the Army.
Why not get this head start
on the future?

What would you like
to learn, Soldier?
USAFI offers more than 300 college, high school
and trade courses. Work you complete can be
submitted for academic credit in civilian schools.
$2 pays all costs. See your information-education
officer or librarian for the USAFI catalog, or
write direct: USAFI, Madison 3, Wisconsin.

USAFI
UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE

[imprint:] WAR DEPARTMENT POSTER No. 28-3
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1945-O-625025
[imprint:] DISTRIBUTION: AAF (10); AGF (10); ASF (2); S Div ASF (2); Tech Sv (2); Sv C (10);
Class I, II, & IV Installations (Info-Ed Off) (10); ASTU (5); (No overseas distribution)
```

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