ABSTRACT
Some organisations may be able to call on the services of psychologists who have made a special study of selection and who can supply full reports on candidates and advise on their suitability for appointment. A successful interviewer is likely to be someone who himself touches life at many points, though he need not feel that he is expected to be a superman possessed of all experience. A good many people may suspect themselves of being in this category when they first undertake a formal interview, but often this is merely a temporary lack of ease in a strange situation and will pass off with practice. Lastly, the interviewer needs what, for want of a better phrase, may be called 'a scientific outlook'. Good interviewers are likely to be critically interested not only in the people they interview but in the interviewing methods they themselves employ and in the judgments they make as the result of interview.
