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 university
 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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