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In the preface to the first edition of this Handbook, we noted that industrial and organizational psychologists have worked for more than 100 years to improve employee selection by identifying new processes for developing and evaluating selection instruments and creating new predictors and criteria for a wide range of jobs and organizations. We also noted that the organizational environments in which selection tools are used have continued to evolve and generally become more complex. Although the first edition of this Handbook could only summarize the important ideas that influenced selection efforts at that time because of the massive body of relevant professional literature, we were extremely proud of it and thrilled by the amount of positive feedback we received from many professional colleagues. When we were approached by representatives of the publisher about editing a second edition, our collective …