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Work Study Volume 29 Issue 4

Work Study

ISSN: 0043-8022

Article publication date: 1 April 1980

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Abstract

ALMOST everybody who is in the position of employer or staff selector has received applications from graduates who are quite certain they have all the qualities necessary to fill the post advertised or who, writing in on the off chance, imply that they possess everything required to warrant a position specifically manufactured for them to fill. The only snag is that when a close look at their diploma is taken, it reveals that they have received it for work done in a totally useless field. We have heard of a case of an applicant with a PhD that was granted for a thesis on a subject so remote from reality that it could be compared with that music‐hall joke of the one who obtained his doctorate for a thesis on the brain power shown by performing fleas.

Citation

(1980), "Work Study Volume 29 Issue 4", Work Study, Vol. 29 No. 4, pp. 3-52. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048374

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MCB UP Ltd

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