Q. What do you mean by Application blanks?

The application blank mainly requires the personal history of the applicant.

According to the Blum & Naylor (1968), "used properly as an aid to the selection, the application blank can be & sometimes is, one of the better selection devices at the disposal of the personnel technician".

Weighted application blank (WABs): to make the application from more job related, some organizations assign numeric values or weights to the responses provided by the applicants. Generally, the items that have a strong relationship to job performance are given high scores.
References and recommendations: documentary evidences in the favour of satisfactory performance in the past are provided by the References and recommendations from the previous employee.