ABSTRACT
By a faithful portrait it is not meant that the result of every interview, even the most thorough and prolonged ones, let alone the brief 20-minute ones, can be a perfect assessment of a candidate's total potentialities. Anomalies, gaps and inconsistencies may still be evident when the interviewer sums up his findings. Any personal assessment, other than self-analysis, is a matter of two or more persons and the personality of the assessor is involved as well as that of the candidate. Not only is it dependent on the fullness and accuracy of the assessor's observations but it may be coloured by his own view of life. A snub nose is thought to mean cheerfulness, a high forehead intelligence, unwillingness to meet the gaze deceit, lack of lobes to the ears moral degeneracy, and so forth. The sound interviewer is a cautious sceptic about all such easy clues, for whose soundness no solid proof is forthcoming.
