Ideal solutions don’t necessarily inform reality

[...]HR practitioners are more frequently faced with limited resources, limited time to make hires, limited available technology (and experience using it), and severely limited applicant pools. [...]these limitations are likely to shift over time with changes in the ambient economic climate, the strategic priorities of organizational leadership, the success and reputation of their organization, and technological progress. [...]the following represent an incomplete list of issues and considerations that I–O academics may want to address in future research concerning best practices in selection. 1. Consider different goals, such as avoiding catastrophic hires. [...]it may be more appropriate at times to focus more on avoiding problematic hires rather than assuming the goal is always to try to identify the very best candidates from a seemingly unlimited applicant pool. [...]applicants themselves self-select into jobs and can remove themselves from the selection process for any number of reasons.