The purpose of this study were: (1) to understand the current status of the recruitment methods of physical education teachers in public senior (vocational) high schools in Taiwan, (2) the professional competence requirement for novice teachers, (3) the differences of professional competence performance among recruitment methods. A self-developed questionnaires was administrated to the section chiefs of physical education in 283 senior (vocational) high schools in Taiwan. Two hundred and twenty-eight valid questionnaires were collected and analyzed by descriptive statistics and One-way ANOVA. The Results as follows: 1. the current recruitment of teachers was mainly handled by schools themselves. The specialized professional competence of teachers accounted for a specific ratio in the recruitment. There were a variety of recruitment methods: the written and oral examination, and mock teaching. The recruitment methods showed slight changes in recent years. The ratio of skill tests had increased, but had decreased in oral examination. Written examinations were still the key to entering the retry out. 2. The professional competence requirement for physical education teachers and the professional competence performance of novice teachers were the highest in the aspect of “spiritual attitude and belief”. 3. No significant differences was found in the professional competence performance of novice teachers employed via different requirement methods. Conclusion: In recent years, various requirement methods had been developed to focus the importance of practical skills and performance of teachers. In addition, the novice teachers employed through teacher requirement showed great professional competence performance, and their performance did not vary due to requirement methods.