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Title: The efficient man
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: West, Thomas D. (Thomas Dyson), 1851-1915
Subjects: Success Employee motivation Industrial efficiency Personnel management
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Gardner Printing Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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cted in their recital of personal quahfica-tions and experiences being almost exactly what hewanted. So satisfactory were these letters he could notconceive of any serious thing lacking until he wouldlook back to some overseer he had dismissed for incom-petency who nevertheless could have written just suchletters as the above and not have had one word of pre-varication in them. Let any head official not having thought of such alooking backward test as the above do so, and he willbe sure to be awakened to the stern fact that no matterhow gratifying and assuring an applicants letter maybe, there generally remains something to be found outthat could cause the applicant, if engaged, to be one of ///(/./ WWNTIID .injHRTISFlMENTS 211 the most ()l)jocti(Mial)lc. or undesirable, overseers he everhad in his employ. In connection with self-written recitals of an ap-plicants experiences, we have commendatory lettersobtained by request of the appHcants from past or pres- ^/\/ O ^ ^ MILL- wRiC,HT;
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Fig. 24. ROMANCING OF THE INEFFICIENT ent employers that can be mailed or delivered by themto a prospective employer. Many of these are of thewornout pocket epistle class often carried by young-oldmen, and which no experienced boss sees brought forthbut knows it is a self-praising letter before reading it.As a rule this class of recommendations has little weightwith the majority of employers. The mailed,written or verbal reference, the substance 212 THE EFFICIENT MAN of which is known only to the employer seeking informa-tion on the integrity, character or skill of an applicant,and to the persons tendering the same in a confidentialmanner, is in reality the only class of informative refer-ence having any substantial merit. The wise and sensiblewill, whenever possible, seek no other kind and will dis-play a desire to welcome the most searching investigationalong these private and confidential lines. Another feature of this subject lies in answering ad-vertisements that expect replies p

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