Expatriate recruitment in South East Asia: dilemma or opportunity?

This paper has analysed the impact of the South East Asian crisis on the recruitment strategies of multinational hotel companies. In the paper a brief review of expatriate recruitment is conducted. From this review a number of strategies of recruitment are identified. The paper proceeds to use the method of environmental scanning to analyse how the South East Asian economic crisis may affect the usefulness of these strategies. In conclusion the paper introduces a process of expatriate recruitment and shows how the process could help address some of the difficulties that may arise as a result of the crisis.