ABSTRACT
The aim of the interview should be, as far as possible, to provide equality of opportunity for all interviewed, and the different methods of coming nearer to this aim should be considered. The attempt may be made to reduce these different kinds of unreliability by some kind of multiple interviewing, viz., by interviewing the candidate on more than one occasion, or by more than one person, or both. The method of 'pre-interview' and Board has much to commend it if sufficient interviewing time can be provided. Both the multiple interview and the Board interview can serve as opportunities for an interviewer to keep a watch on himself by checking his own assessments against those of his colleagues. When two persons are interviewing together, the second interviewer fills up gaps in the information about the candidate by asking questions not raised or not covered sufficiently by the first interviewer.
