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Metrics for assessing similarity of jobs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2022

Leaetta M. Hough Open the ORCID record for Leaetta M. Hough [Opens in a new window]  and
Teresa L. Russell
Leaetta M. Hough*
Affiliation:
The Dunnette Group, Ltd.
Teresa L. Russell
Affiliation:
Independent Scholar
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*Corresponding author. Email: leaetta@msn.com
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 2022 , pp. 55 - 60
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