The topic of this bachelor’s thesis is employee selection methods and techniques. Considering that the recruiting of the candidates takes place before their employee selection, there is a brief explanation of the internal, external and alternative recruiting. Selection is the human resource's most important activity and therefore gets the most attention. At the same time, it's the activity with many methods and techniques representing steps that together form an activity flow different for each individual company. Both selection problems and their solutions are being mentioned. Problems touched upon are misuse and misinterpretation of the data, halo effect, assimilation with the candidate, stereotyping, discrimination, unstructured and unprepared selection and others. Next is the branching of the main subject of this thesis, selection methods and techniques, to the conventional and unconventional ones. With their numerosity being taken into consideration, following methods and techniques will be explained: interview, request, application and CV review, reference check, psychological tests, medical examination, trial work, polygraph questioning, graphology, astrology and testing of physical readiness, honesty and drug use. The most attention will be oriented towards interview as the most important selection method divided on the initial, diagnostic and final reception interview, and the psychological tests like the intelligence, creativity, mechanical abilities, verbal abilities and personality test. Some of them will be shown on the example of Tele2 Croatia. This work contains visual table and picture displays which complement the explanations of the selection methods and techniques.