Does the type of job matter?: Recruitment to Australia's Northern Territory

Employee Relations

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 121-137

  Carson, Dean ^a   Coe, Kristal ^b   Zander, Kerstin ^a   Garnett, Stephen ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Environment Protection Authority   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Government policy; Professional associations; Recruitment; Rural regions

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649139988     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425451011010087     Document Type: Article

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