Optimal stopping in job recruitment refers to the strategy of determining the best time to make a decision after considering a certain number of options. In the context of job recruitment, it means a hiring manager would interview a certain number of candidates, then choose the best one from that pool. The challenge is to decide when to stop interviewing more candidates and make a decision. This is based on the assumption that the best candidate may not be the first or last one interviewed, but somewhere in between.
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