Recruiting Administrative Personnel in the Field

Y EARS ago, Mark Graves, chairman of the New York State Tax Commission, made the observation that civil service does not guarantee government will get the best employees; it merely ensures that government will not get the worst. However inadequate the best of what came to the examination room, the results were accepted more or less complacently. Such procedure was inadequate in time of peace, but in time of war it provided an impossible basis of operation. Not only was the number of positions to be filled enormously increased, almost over night, but many of them were of new and previously unknown types. As the selective service law continued to function, and more and more defense plants were placed in full operation, the shortages in certain phases of the labor market became acute. Under such condi

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