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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ho move,whether within the same company orto the territory of another company.This permits reaching them directlyif they do not apply for work. Employment Offices For years the System companieshave had employment offices forwomen in all cities where the sizewarrants them. All applicants go tothese centers, regardless of the kindof position desired. Large volumehiring has necessitated the opening ofmany additional offices and the ex-pansion of others. Paralleling theexpansion of these facilities has beenthe addition of many new interview-ers and other employment office per-sonnel. These carefully selectedwomen are prepared for their workon the basis of a recently developedtraining course, geared to meet the needs of present-day employmentconditions. Where there are no em-ployment offices as such, designatedsupervisory employees have the em-ployment responsibility. Induction and Training After employment come inductionand training. Induction proceduresare aimed at establishing and main-
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Booklets which emphasize the advantages^ financial and environ-mental^ of telephone employment 1946 Hiring a garter of a Million Women 145 taining pleasant contacts between su-pervision and the new employee fromthe very start, and giving informa-tion promptly to her about the manythings she wants to know and thosewith which the company, as her em-ployer, wants her to be familiar.Movies are used as one of the waysin which interesting stories are told.Titles of two such pictures recentlycompleted are The Big Day andMeet Your Company. Another activity is popularly re-ferred to as The ABCs of Our Busi-ness. In this, new employees—andolder ones too—in group meetingsare given information about funda-mental principles applying to the suc- cessful running of any business, andthe telephone business in particular.Sound-slide films are used, trainedleaders conduct discussion periods,and booklets are distributed as take-home pieces. In preparing the new employeesto perform their work, and kee

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