The aim of this diploma thesis is to explain the concept of international employees who are summoned to the foreign mission ie. expatriates, to describe the process they go through in order to be selected for the task itself, from the criteria’s, to the selection of methods and techniques. After the description of process of election of expatriates, a process of education and training that is necessary to provide expatriates for a good stay abroad is described. There is also mention of success associated with the selection and the success associated with training for the global task. Data collected in the theoretical part of this work basis were gathered from secondary sources. Primary research is related to subjects which were supposed to give an answer on the characteristics of ideal expatriates ie. which are desirable traits in the selection process and how much preparation and training of expatriates are helping and affecting the success of the global task, a theme that is now current in the literature associated with these global employees. The research part of the work presents the results of the respondent’s answers and the final conclusions in the final chapter of the work.