The impact of specified professional development programme information as a marketing tool for effective recruitment

Human Resource Development International

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-73

  Huang, Wen Hao David ^a   Huang, Wen Yeh ^b   Chiu, Chuan Chun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c ADATA Technology Co Ltd   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corporate attractiveness; Job application intention; Professional development programme; Training and development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930021318     PISSN: 13678868     EISSN: 14698374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13678868.2011.542898     Document Type: Article

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