ABSTRACT
A Directorate of Selection of Personnel was, accordingly, set up, under the Adjutant-General, in June, 1941; its technical work was supervised by industrial psychologists of experience, and a system of intelligence testing, using the Progressive Matrices, was introduced at all recruiting depots. With the development of the Directorate of Selection of Personnel, and the psychiatrist interviewed all those who were rated in the lowest selection grade, or whose selection grade was incompatible with the new duties in which it was proposed to employ them. In the winter and spring of 1941–1942, the Directorate of Selection of Personnel carried out experiments in intake selection, with the co-operation of Army psychiatrists. The function of the psychiatrist in General Service intake procedure was essentially complementary to that of the Personnel Selection Officer. Army selection procedure had been applied to the relatively small numbers of Royal Navy and Royal Air Force personnel who had originally been transferred to the Army in August, 1944.
