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Recruitment advertisements communicate HRM policies to potential employees.
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The messages contained in recruitment advertisements and the recruitment process contributes to psychological contract formation.
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Recruitment advertisements attract potential employees; retention involves meeting their expectations.
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Remote health workforce sustainability could be improved through asking what attracted the current remote health workforce.
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Few advertised management positions had mandatory (or desirable) requirements for management qualifications, previous management experience or experience in a remote region.
When people are acting oddly, or differently from the way you’d act, ask yourself ‘why?’ We all react differently to various situations. What stresses out one person no end will not faze someone else in the slightest. Don’t try to change the person; just try to understand why they are not behaving the way you expected.
Rachael Robertson, Antarctic Expedition Leader.
(Robertson 2014, p. 103)
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Onnis, La. (2019). Recruitment: Attraction, Advertising and Realistic Recruitment. In: HRM and Remote Health Workforce Sustainability. Management for Professionals. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2059-0_4
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