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To: Ken Benes who wrote (73935)	7/25/2001 2:27:09 PM
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OT But we had proof (in Ken)right in front of us Applicants flunk basic skills testing By John Burke • Bankrate.com® Small-business owners in the hiring market, beware! Chances are that more than a third of your applicants will lack the basic skills necessary to do the job, according to an annual survey by the American Management Association. The AMA defines basic skills as functional workplace literacy: "… the ability to read instructions, write reports, and/or do arithmetic at a level adequate to perform common workplace tasks." The association's 2001 survey found that 34.1 percent of job applicants last year flunked pre-employment reading and math exams. That is fractionally better than in previous years. In 1999, 38.3 percent of those tested failed, while 35.5 percent of job seekers failed in 1998. But the latest numbers remain high enough to give human resource managers pause. ... bankrate.com