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enjoys. Others take each individual employee as he 
comes in and introduce him to his future supervisor, and 
make him feel generally welcome. These methods are 
desirable and helpful. However, by far the most funda 
mental means of introduction is the vestibule or intro 
ductory training school. Wherever possible, new workers 
should be introduced to their work through the mediation 
of experts and under conditions conducive to proper 
instruction. The nature of the vestibule school as a 
means of preparing new workers for the tasks to which 
they have been assigned has already been thoroughly 
discussed. Wherever there is a good-sized body of sales 
men or saleswomen, office workers, machine operators, 
assemblers, textile workers, or workers of almost any 
kind engaged in similar work, a training school is practi 
cable and advisable and new employees should be put 
through a period of conditioning. The modern industrial 
situation has demonstrated the importance of this item 
in employment work, and the lesson will never be for 
gotten. 
All employment work is governed by a set of forms or 
blanks, the -paper basis for all procedures. Such forms 
are quite essential for recording and controlling in a uni 
form way each step in the employment process. It may 
seem desirable to give such a set of forms here as illus 
trations of the steps which have been described; namely, 
the card for recording the results of the psychological 
tests (see Appendix); and the individual activity records 
(see Chapters XXII and XXIII). Besides these forms 
there will be necessary the application blank, the medical- 
examination record, the introduction slip, and the com 
prehensive record which is kept permanently in the em 
ployment files. The exact character of these records