Sell-Analysis
Civil Service Selection Boards consist of a chairman, an observer and a psychologist; for the benefit of the latter each candidate is required, at one stage of ithe proceedings, to write, as objectively as possible, an account of his own characteristics. A friend of mine, while serving on one of these Boards, became morbidly fascinated by one of the candidates, an exceptionally flabby and pasty-faced young man with what may be described as a ' Before Taking ' appearance, but possessed of considerable intelligence and great self-assurance. Afterwards he asked the psychologist what sort of a self-portrait this youth had painted of himself. " Pretty flattering, on the whole," said the psychologist. " He dealt with the question of his physique by writing • My body is perfectly equal to the limited demands I make on it.' "
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