Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: called for newly created positions, for unexpected increases in personnel and to replenish eligible lists which have been unexpectedly exhausted. Each of these extraordinary needs may be fitted into the calendar of the examining division's work, either in spaces reserved for such cases or by transferring to new dates, other examinations on the calendar. Specialisation. There is need for greater specialization of work in the examining division. Such supecialization should be informal rather than formal. It should be developed by the most careful and discriminating use of the power of assignment by the chief examiner, by a study of the individual capability and personal preference of each member of the examining staff and by service instruction, rather than by formal designation. The adoption by the commission of a classification based upon scientific principles will be an aid to such specialization as well as to the proper development of the promotion system. The chief examiner should not hesitate to deviate from such specialized assignments whenever in his judgment the interests of the service will be benefited thereby. Too much formal specialization among the examiners is dangerous, both because it will detract from the breadth of the examinations and because it will localize too narrowly the activities of the division, with respect to each class of examination. CHAPTER THREE The Chief Examiner Importance of Position. The chief examiner is more than the principal subordinate of the Civil Service Commission. 'He is more than the chief executive of the examining division. He is more than the guardian and defender of the merit system in the City of New York. He is in charge of the employment department of a municipal corporation employing more than fifty thousand men an...