EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY 
development of their teaching and supervisory personnel. 
Even more obvious are the responsibilities of these insti- 
tutions in the selection and classification of their students 
according to aptitude and ability; in helping them most 
wisely to plan the successive steps of their education; and 
in placing them, on leaving school, in touch with those voca- 
tional opportunities in which there is the greatest likelihood 
of individual satisfaction and success. Each of these areas 
of educational and occupational adjustment offers its chal- 
lenge to men of scientific temper with an aptitude for per- 
sonnel research. 
Society will value whatever genuine contributions these 
investigators make to employment procedures, vocational 
guidance, and related aspects of personnel practice, whether 
in education or in industry. Conclusions wrought from the 
facts of occupational analysis, individual measurement and 
vocational experience, with such statistical tools and experi- 
mental techniques as have here been assembled, will add 
materially to the sum of sound principles and practical pro- 
cedures which together form the substance of employment 
psychology. The ingenuity, skill, and scientific rigor with 
which this pioneering is done will determine its real value 
in helping people find their places in what will be, for them 
and for their employers, the most satisfactory and reward- 
ing opportunities for work. 
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