Thomson's manual of Pacific Northwest finance

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Identifikator:: 1838857176

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-229226

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Thomson's manual of Pacific Northwest finance

Place of publication:: Seattle

Publisher:: Thomson's Statistical Service

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: XXX, 487 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Section V. Pulp and paper companies

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THE VOCATIONAL VALUE OF TESTS 179 take an individual over the most difficult obstacles. In one of the experiments already described was a girl whose performance in the most significant test proclaimed that she would most decidedly fail at the work she was trying to do. As a matter of fact this girl succeeded, but it took her about four times as long as the average success. How ever, due to her dominant ambition, she did finally succeed and became one of the most successful workers in the room. While it is highly advisable to recognize ambition and to give it its just deserts, it is just as desirable to detect l mpulse. Very many candidates apply for a certain kind °f work or a certain course of training, not because they ar e extremely ambitious in that direction, but because they have heard from some successful friend how pleasant the work is and how easy it is to make a high wage in a short time. The new candidate does not stop to consider that what is pleasant and profitable to his friend may not he equally pleasant and profitable for him. In cases of this kind—and every employment office and industry tfteets them in abundance—the verdict of the tests should he followed. If it is not, and the ill-adapted applicant is hired, the result is quite likely to be another turnover, hor as soon as the new worker discovers that the work is ttot quite as enjoyable and remunerative for him as it is for his friend, he will probably leave. The vocational value of tests is particularly great in this respect. Many useless an d costly vocational experiments can be eliminated by their application, and successful ones made possible in stead. ' When a candidate has a good training but poor natural a hility, the question of his vocation becomes a grave one. ^ the individual has himself recognized his tempera

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