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Typing tests did not disappear with the typewriter. In several countries they are still a formal, scored stage of hiring for government and clerical work - and the bar varies more than most people expect.
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For millions of candidates, the typing test is the last stage between them and a government post - and the one they are least likely to have prepared for properly.
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There is no national typing standard in the United States. There are, instead, a number of occupations where the test is entirely routine and the bar is set by the employer or a professional body.
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In the UK the typing test is less an examination than a screening step - which makes it easier to sit and just as easy to fail.
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The Philippines runs one of the largest customer service industries in the world, and a typing test is a standard part of getting into it.
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In Canada and Australia the typing requirement is real but decentralised: it lives in the individual job advertisement, not in a national rulebook.
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