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Strategy for Hiring a Secretary
Author: Harris S. Shultz and Bill Leonard
An employer is seeking a new secretary. Under a rather rigid hiring procedure, the employer is allowed to interview n candidates one at a time and decide, at the conclusion of each interview, whether or not to hire that applicant. If the employer decides not to hire a given interviewee, there will not be another opportunity at which to do so. How can the employer maximize the probability of choosing the best secretary?
©1987 by COMAP, Inc.
The UMAP Journal 8.4
5 pages
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Buisness
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