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EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY 
are the foundations upon which any more thoroughgoing 
analysis must be built. Moreover, it includes certain 
other items which are not usually considered part of a 
job analysis but which are nevertheless genuine parts of a 
job and of the utmost importance. Notable among the 
latter is the item of earnings. Earnings are, from the 
applicant’s point of view, the one most important feature 
of any job, and it is absolutely essential that the em 
ployment office, in trying to fit certain applicants to 
certain jobs, be in a position to state exactly what the 
initial and possible earnings for each job are. Many an 
applicant has quit work at the end of the first week be 
cause the employment office intimated that he would 
receive one rate and the job to which he was sent paid him 
another. 
The outline is divided into three general sections; 
(1) physical characteristics, (2) mental characteristics, and 
(3) miscellaneous characteristics. Under physical char 
acteristics are included such items as those relating to 
heat, cleanliness, strenuousness, and other physical 
features, some of which may seem, at first glance, quite 
irrelevant to a job analysis. However, from a psycholog 
ical point of view, from a medical point of view, and from a 
common sense and business point of view, these facts are 
essential phases of a job and are of the utmost importance. 
The importance of physical fitness has been increasingly 
realized during the past few years, as is well shown by the 
large and growing number of industries giving physical 
examinations. So far, however, physical examinations 
have been aimed more particularly at preventing those 
with serious defects or contagious diseases from getting 
into the shops. Not much attention has been paid to the 
kind of work to which those men who passed the physical