The Process of Selecting New Career Employees

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CIA-RDP80-01826R000500080006-7
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C
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2
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December 9, 2016
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August 14, 2000
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6
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June 23, 1953
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MF
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0 Approved ForRelease 2000/09/12 : CIA-RDP80-01826R000500080006-7 C 0 P Y CONFIDENTIAL Security Information 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 Approved For Release 2000/09/12 : CIA-RDP80-01826R000500080006-7 Approved For Release 2000/09/12 : CIA-RDP80-01826R000500080006-7 CON2 7DEN'TTAL Security Information 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, /a/ rman 25X1A9a Approved For Release 2000/09/12 : CIA-RDP80-01826R000500080006-7