USMCFLYR,

If SWA has 10 openings and 1000 apps from fully qualified pilots, what selection method would be best to use?

Presumably you could eliminate half the candidates for typos, or poor grammar, or penmanship on their application.

You could chop off another two hundred or so because they wore brown shoes instead of black to the interview.

Drop another two hundred simply because they do not live in a SWA city. Kinda unfair, but that still leaves 100 candidates for ten jobs.

Its not at all unimaginable that SWA would eliminate qualified candidates for reasons irrelevant to the position, merely to arrive at a manageable number of candidates.