The Office of Student Placement yesterday announced the beginning of its fifth annual Harvard Conference on Careers to stimulate long-range planning for future jobs.

The program, which will run from February 15 to March 20, consists of eight separate conferences, one in each of the seven Houses and the Union. Each discussion will feature four or five experts in a certain profession or business.

Primarily for College seniors, the forums are also open to the public. Invitations have been sent out to M.I.T., Boston University, and the Harvard Graduate Schools. In the past, students, faculty, and schools personnel from these schools have attended the sessions.

A dean of one of the University schools will moderate every discussion except the ones on writing and journalism and the sciences in industry. Professors and other authorities will complete the panels.

Each man will speak for ten minutes after which the moderator will open the discussion to questions from the audience to round out the hour and a half program.

One of the subjects for discussion is the armed forces and selective service. The other fields are government, law, education, medicine, and business administration.

The aim of the conferences is to get students interested enough to come to talk with officials in the Placement Office, which can help get them well located after graduation.