Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-28 | Page 4 | Making Ability Tests

Mi oo MAKING ABILITY TESTS. H ' . .' "Ability tests" are now being made I by a business organization which sp 1 cializes in the work. In r h publi I : literature these figures an a A large publisher spirit $1000 :" September for want ads alone to m.in-j m.in-j tain Its force of 800. Th- National I City bank in 1918 employed 2.000 to 1 j maintain a force of 1,200. Each sales clerk in a dry goods Bl costs ?54 to try out, according to the secretary of the Retail Dry Goods As. soclation. It is known that it costs up- j wards of $300 to break in i good trav- " eling salesman. It costs ai least $J." to find and break in a Office bo: The United States armv, through its committee on classification of personnel, person-nel, did the quickest and finest job of : I placing four million mon winch ih world has yet recorded It did this by using standardized trade tfsts, carrh i out under the supervision of psychological psycho-logical experts. Ik , rr