Abstract
Recruitment and selection in organizations have not always played a significant role. Indeed, some firms had no Human resources department twenty years ago. This fad for human resources management depends on many factors, either external ones or internal ones. Mr Beaumont in 1993 tried to identify three reasons that could account for this dramatically increasing importance of recruitment and selection. The first one is the shift in the labour market demographic trend. Baumont emphasizes that the workforce is much more varied than before, that is why fairness and equity in methods of recruitment are now considered as incontrovertible values. The second factor is a "desire for a multiple-skilled flexible workforce", thus recruiters are becoming more demanding. They do not only want to recruit an employee that strictly match the job requirement but they are also willing that this employee is able to work in a team and on different projects. This leads us to the third factor which is the strategic selection. In fact the corporate strategy is now bound to people management. As a result hiring methods are becoming always more selective and demanding in order to recruit the "right employee".
