ABSTRACT
Assuming a large field of candidates, there should be reasonable economy in the ratio of people interviewed to vacancies. Candidates not placed on the short list can be told at once that they have been unsuccessful. There is no reason why selection interviews should not be planned and carried out according to the same regular timetable as any other business arrangements. Yet in practice they often are not, especially where an Interviewing Board is concerned. Even with a regular timetable, candidates will have to wait a few minutes, longer if they arrive early, and it is important to provide them with a suitable waiting-room, preferably stocked with some current periodicals, in which they can find something to occupy themselves while waiting. The importance of a friendly welcome, when the candidate enters the interview room, is so obvious and has, rightly, been stressed so often that it does not need to be laboured here.
