Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

THREE POSITION PLAN OF PROMOTION 193 to impart all information that would be of help to the organisation as to his history and anteced- ents, his home and other social conditions out- side the plant, that help or hinder his plans of preparing, ambitions, etc. It is common prac- tice in these days to present the applicant with blanks to be filled in with all this information. We use such blanks in selecting applicants, always with the proviso that, if the appli- cant shows any disinclination to fill out such parts of the blank as tell of his ambitions or other details, which he may consider confidential, he be not required to do so. This information has been invariably volunteered, when the for- tune map, or schedule, is understood. aturally the applicant must furnish such information as will show his ability and reliability; but, as we will see later, these are so supplemented by data obtained through other sources that it is not necessary to ask for information usually consid- ered confidential before it is volunteered. The second by-product of these fortune sheets is di- rectly connected with the solution of the prob- lem of getting constantly a group of desirable ap- plicants from which to select more wisely. Thus,