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IN its ninth report for the session 1947-48, the Select Committee on Estimates discussed the Civil Service Commission, and recommended that the Civil Service Selection Board should be retained for the present if only on a part-time basis. Few who saw the Board at work in its country mansion at Stoke d'Abernon were not impressed by the skill and thoroughness with which the potentialities of candidates were probed and brought to light for the final interview board of the Commission. It is not contended, even by those who hold most strongly that the new methods have helped the final selection board to make a better selection and fewer mistakes, that these methods are as yet anything more than experimental, and it should not be forgotten in applying them that their effectiveness depends largely on the accuracy with which we can define the qualities sought in the candidates, whether for the Civil Service or any other occupation.
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Selection Methods and Man-Power. Nature 163, 545–547 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163545a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163545a0