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The Mysteries of Recruitment

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- Laurie Taylor investigates the long and strange history of attempts by employers to make recruitment a more objective process. Examples include the Civil Service exams in the 1850s, early psychological tests and the forms that encouraged interviewers to grade a candidate's face and hands. ProducerJohn Goudie

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