EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY 
tant, or nurse. It may be in an office, perhaps as pay clerk 
or comptometer operator; in a store, as cashier or assistant 
buyer; in a trade school, as apprentice compositor; in a uni- 
versity where standards of admission are being fixed for 
entrance to law school; or in a civil service commission 
which is preparing examinations for selection of policemen, 
plumbers, hospital attendants, highway engineers, and 
income-tax adjusters. Whatever the occupation selected for 
study, scientific method imposes much the same program of 
successive steps in research procedure. 
Having fixed on his particular problem, the investigator 
must get his bearings by making a careful analysis of the 
job to be studied. The next chapter deals with the methods 
of carrying out a complete job analysis. 
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