Applying the weighted application blank technique to a variety of office jobs.

"1. Application blanks of female office employees hired for the first time in 1954 were reviewed. Fifteen personal history variables were found to differentiate between long-term and short-term female office employees when weights were assigned to these variables. 2. A similar study was made on application blanks of female office employees hired for the first time in 1955. Similar results were obtained for this 1955 cross-validation group. The same 15 variables tended to differentiate markedly between long- and short-term employees… there was less overlap in total scores between long- and short-term groups in the cross-validation sample than in the validation group." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)