Abstract. In today's competitive environment, quali ed human resources are considered as one of the major keys to the organizations' success. So, an e cient solution to the problem of personnel selection is more necessary than ever. Besides many studies in the literature of the eld, this paper presents a novel fuzzy ELECTRE approach which is categorized as a Multiple-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) technique. In this approach, the weights and ranks are determined by linguistic variables while both quantitative and qualitative criteria are considered simultaneously. At last, the implementation of the model is illustrated and the results are compared with those of TOPSIS.