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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 5

The head of a large business organisation, the staff of which had been selected from men registered under the Labour Department’s Placement Scheme, mentioned during a recent conversation with a placement officer that of the large numbers of men appointed to the staff only one had proved unsatisfactory. On investigation it was found that a former employer of this man had, possibly through a mistaken kindness, furnished a totally inaccurate testimonial as to his integrity and industrial ability. The harmful results of supplying such misleading information cannot be too strongly stressed, and the manager said he thought that undoubted benefits would accrue to employers generally when they realised that under the Labour Department’s Placement Scheme every possible effort was made to obtain thorough and accurate reports regarding the integrity and industrial capacity of applicants for employment.