<p>Current recruitment and selection practices are essentially a cloning process which seeks to match applicants with the current corporate culture of the hiring organisation. This ignores applicants with different points of view, differing value systems and career aspirations. Authors Fons Trompenaars and Peter Woolliams explore the idea that, while all organisations should develop and promote their core values, the application of them needs to be revisited.</p><p><em>New Approaches to Recruitment and Selection</em> presents a new framework that compares current corporate cultures with the evolving value systems of current and potential employees. The authors believe that applicants should match the organization¿s needs and explore how different categories of applicants can enrich the organisation whilst providing full engagement.</p><p>The authors¿ longitudinal research on traditional frameworks and practices shows that while companies strive to be objective, they are rarely free of