Life history or biodata correlates of ministerial success were investigated for a group of 92 Seventh-Day Adventist ministers. Two significant bivariate correlations indicated that successful ministers chose their career later than less successful ones and that earning college expenses was predictive of success. (Author/HMV)

This study focuses on an instrument that appears useful for career guidance or job assignment purposes--the Biographical Data Blank. Responses of three groups of engineers (holding research and development, management, and nonengineering positions) to a life history questionnaire were analyzed. Results indicate that groups could indeed be…

The results of this study suggest that prediction of job termination from measured job satisfaction is likely to be more fruitful than the use of biographical data for the same prediction. (Author)

The significant finding in the present study is that biographic variables are correlated only slightly with work attitudes. (Author)

This study predicted two measures of incidental employee absenteeism (absenteeism with pay and without pay) via seven biographical and six attitudinal variables with 195 employees. Results indicated paid absences were basically unpredictable, while unpaid absences could be predicted to some degree by certain variables consistently identified…

A scoreable biographical data key was developed for a group of women lower level managers, and applied to male and female managers. Showed statistical validity for both the cross-validation sample and for the samples of female and male managers. (Author)