ABSTRACT
This chapter was prepared for a conference on selection and classification. Yet the conference began not with a discussion of selection and classification models and practices but with a discussion of the nature of jobs and their measurement. Does it seem strange or, perhaps, somewhat misguided, that we led off such a conference with a discussion of jobs when selection and classification were our primary concerns? Obviously not—none of the participants questioned this order because we all share the same underlying view of selection and classification.
