QUALIFICATIONS AND WORK RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE POSITION OF JUNIOR PSYCHOLOGIST, ASSESSMENT STAFF. PRESENT RATING GS-11, PROPOSED RATING GS-12/13

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• Document Release Date: June 2, 2000
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• Publication Date: April 12, 1950
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12 April 1950
TO : TRD Policy Committee
FROM : Chief, Assessment Staff
SUBJECT: Qualifications and Mork Responsibilities for the Position of
Junior Psychologist, Assessment Staff. Present rating GS-11.
Proposed rating GS-12/13.
1. The qualifications for this position are as follows:
a. Associate or Affiliate Member of the American Psychological
Association.
b. Service as a member of the armed forces, as an officer, during
World War II. (Combat and/or intelligence experience highly desirable but
not required).
c. Willingness to be trained and to serve, when necessary, as a
senior intelligence officer, either in headquarters or in an overseas post.
d. Versatility of interests and aptitudes, and experience in occu-
pations other than psychology.
e. At least one year's experience in the clinical appraisal of
adult cases requiring skill in interview techniques.
f. At least two years' experience in the psychological testing of
adults, especially on problems of selection and classification.
.g. Masters degree in psychology.
h. Successful completion of graduate courses in statistics and
experimental psychology.
i. Initiative, emotional stability, social maturity, sophistication,
poise. Sensible, practical, industrious. Pleasing, well-balanced per-
sonality.
J.
Favorable assessment report before assignment to position
2. The work responsibilities for this position are as follows:
a. Competence in the administration and scoring of tests of
intelligence, personality, temperament, attitudes, memory, perception,
current affairs, vocabulary, logical reasoning, and vocational interests.
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b. Capable of assisting the senior psychologist in drawing logical
and relevant conclusions from the tests which he administers. The junior
psychologist must, himself, collect significant observations of psycho-
logical interest during the testing process.
c. Under limited supervision, he must be competent in developing
new and/or modifying existing tests; for example, tests of; tough-mindness,
current affairs, and intelligence officer aptitude and knowledge. In order
to do this, he must be familiar with sampling procedures, item analyses,
and techniques of validity and reliability.
d. he must be capable of assisting and participating with the senior
psychologist in conducting psychological interviews*
e. He should be capable of carrying out a complete assessment case,
from start to finish, including the interview and final report on cases
which are not complicated by serious emotional and mental disability.
f. He should be skillful in summarizing the assets and liabilities
of a completed assessment case in preparation for the conference-discussion
o.. final written report*
g. He should be a keen observer and competent in assisting the senior
psychologist to spot persons who are emotionally unstable, seriously neu-
rotic, or psychopathic.
h. He should be capable of developing ideas and assisting in the
development of new work-sample and situation tests.
i. He should be competent in supervising the work of psychometrists,
statistical analysts, research assistants, and stenographers.
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