EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY
development of their teaching and supervisory personnel.
Even more obvious are the responsibilities of these institutions
 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 vocational
 opportunities in which there is the greatest likelihood
of individual satisfaction and success. Each of these areas
of educational and occupational adjustment offers its challenge
 to men of scientific temper with an aptitude for personnel
 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 experimental
 techniques as have here been assembled, will add
materially to the sum of sound principles and practical procedures
 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 rewarding
 opportunities for work.

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