The Process of Selecting New Career Employees

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R000500080006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 23, 1953
• Content Type: MF

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C 0 P Y CONFIDENTIAL
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23 June 1953
MEM0RAMMI FOR: The CIA Career Service Board
FROM: The Professional Selection Panel
SUBJECT: The Process of Selecting New Career Employees
REFERENCES CIA Career Service Board memorandum dated 27 May 1953
to In reference memorandum the Board Instructed the Panel to revise
its report of 17 April 1953, takix:=g into consideration the comments of the
Office Career Service Boards, and to resubmit to the Board its reconnnda-
tions concerning the process of selecting new career employees,
20 A sub-committee of the Panel prepared and submitted to the Panel
a paper (Tab A) in which it endeavored to combine the policy and procedural
aspects of this matter. At a special meeting held on the evening of
16 June 1953, the Panel and its advisors discussed this paper, Several of
those present expressed strong di:ragreement with certain aspects of the
submitted to the Board as
papers which, for that reason, is not now being
a recommendation of the Panel,
3, Among the comments concerning the paper, the following stand out as
the most salientx
a, Several persons, including the adv1s from, the Security Office
and the Personnel Office, expressed the view that an effort, should be made to
strengthen and improve existing procedures rather than creating new and
possibly duplicate procedures to correct any present weaknesses. In line
with this comment, the Panel is requesting the Personnel Director to recommend
specific actions which can be taken to improve existing procedures (Tab B)o
b, Several persons agreed with the advisor from the Security office
who objected strongly to the suggestion contained in Corrntent "C", paragraph
IV of the paper, on the ground that extensive dissemination of such information
is contrary to good security practice and that the procedure suggested would
involve q heavy and unneeassary workload, Others present felt cqually strongly
that means should be found to make available to the employing -office all
"administrative" information concerning a prospective employee, whether or not
the information is judged by the Security Office to be adverse o
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or, Another comment on the paper concerned the failure of the
suggested procedure to make full use of the Office Career Service Bcards
in the process of selection,
4, The Panel regrets that it is unable to submit definite recommendations
to the Board at this time, It is intended that a new paper will be drafted
as soon as the Personnel Director has furnished the suggestions requested
in Tab Bo Meanwhile, it tree felt that the CIA Career Service Board could
assist the Panel considerably by commenting formally or informally on the
attached paper,
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