ABSTRACT
For most people, however, interviewing is something which, like making speeches, they intermittently find themselves having to do, especially after they reach a certain degree of seniority in their chosen walk of life. In the course of preliminary enquiries about practice in central and local government services, in the public corporations, in hospitals and in businesses, the writers found that a selection interview of some kind was used for almost all new appointments in all the organisations. Exceptions were some appointments of lower-grade manual workers and, in the case of one large organisation, of clerical entrants, who were chosen, as clerical entrants to the Civil Service have been, by written examination only. The casualness with which the interview is treated by business firms in one State of the USA is described by Professor H. Seligson and 16D. Interviewing is a difficult subject, part art, part science.
