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an overview of the PJ [person-job] fit literature reveals three basic deficiencies/first, despite the common emphasis on PJ fit across many areas of OB [organizational behavior] and I/O [industrial/organizational] psychology, developments in these areas have largely occurred independently/this has produced streams of PJ fit research that are typically considered distinct, but actually share more similarities than differences/second, few attempts have been made to comprehensively review and critically evaluate empirical PJ fit research/third, empirical PJ fit research is repeatedly plagued with serious methodological problems/the purpose of this chapter is to address the deficiencies in the PJ fit literature