Two-Career Conundrum

Corporations that shuffle male executives from city to city are running into stiff resistance from the two-career family. Sometimes the wife of an employee being transferred is unwilling to give up her rewarding job. In other cases, the couple fears that it will be forced to scale back a two-paycheck life-style because the wife may be unable to find comparable work in the new city.

Executive relocation services, which in the past have concentrated on finding new homes for employees on the move, are now looking for ways to deal with the two-career dilemma. New Horizons Corp. of Stamford, Conn., has created a subsidiary that acts as an employment agency specializing in finding jobs for spouses. Another Connecticut-based relocation firm, Home Buyers Assistance Corp., has developed the Job Information Bank, a computerized catalogue of likely employment openings for spouses with about 150 companies in Connecticut and New Jersey. Explains Benno Curtis, senior vice president of Home Buyers Assistance: "If AT&T brings in John, then maybe GTE has an opening for Jenny." The job bank has helped more than 50 wives with their job search.

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