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title: Every Member of the ATS Learns a Job That Will Help Her to Earn Her Living in the Post-War World
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-ats-post-war-careers-1939/
description: A photo-and-icon layout pairs five ATS trades (anti-aircraft, radiolocation, cookery, office work, driving) with matching post-war careers.
section: Collection
---

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[![Every Member of the ATS Learns a Job That Will Help Her to Earn Her Living in the Post-War World, 1939 UK poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-ats-post-war-careers-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-ats-post-war-careers-1939.jpg)

# Every Member of the ATS Learns a Job That Will Help Her to Earn Her Living in the Post-War World

A photo-and-icon layout pairs five ATS trades (anti-aircraft, radiolocation, cookery, office work, driving) with matching post-war careers. It lists only benefits such as 'promotion comes quickly' and 'excellent training' and names no hardships or risks, which is the card-stacking tell.

## 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

```
ATS

Every member of the ATS learns a job that will help her to earn her living in the post-war world... Every girl who joins the ATS learns a job which can become a career. When she enters the Service she is allowed to say which three types of work she would most like to do. She is then chosen according to her temperament and ability. Promotion comes quickly to those who really want to get on.

post-war

Ack-Ack: Operational duties. ATS operate range finders, height finders, predictors and telescopic instruments at gun sites. Women excel at this work.
Civil AVIATION: Ack-Ack training is a splendid preparation for post-war work in this field.
Radiolocation: The ATS are given exactly the same opportunities as the men. They can train to become radio-mechanics or engineers.
Engineering & RADIO Mechanics: There will be a future here for girls who trained in the ATS.
Cookery: The ATS accepts learner cooks, home cooks and trained cooks, caterers and dieticians. Excellent training, steady promotion.
Domestic Science, Catering, DIETETICS: ATS training qualifies the ambitious girl to make a career of cookery.
Office work: ATS train members for every branch of office work, including copy-typing, shorthand typing, secretarial work, book-keeping.
SECRETARIAL work: Book-keeping and advanced office work. The ATS are given first-class training for post-war business careers.
Driving: The ATS are giving concentrated training as drivers and driver mechanics. They drive convoys, lorries, ambulances and staff cars.
Professional DRIVING and valeting of cars. ATS training is quite outstanding for the woman driver of the future.

Kine-Theodolite operators will be equipped to take up technical post-war photography. In the Army School of Experiments the ATS qualify for post-war research work. Cine projection trains girls to operate, understand and repair the mechanism of the projector.
Storewomen have excellent training and practical experience in the technical side of storekeeping. Nursing Orderlies may become Dentists' and Doctors' Receptionists. Office orderlies can be promoted to office work. Mess orderlies may become waitresses and floor supervisors.

Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by W. R. Royle & Son, Ltd. 51-2583
```

[← A.T.S.: For Information Ask at Any Army or A.T.S. Recruiting Centre or at the Nearest Employment Exchange](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-ats-for-information-ask-recruiting-centre-1939/) ['The ATS wants cooks' (British Auxiliary Territorial Service recruiting poster) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-ats-wants-cooks-1939/)

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