As a human capital crisis poses urgent challenges across multiple countries, public
administration scholars and practitioners are concerned with recruitment and selection …

Public sector recruitment is an urgent and prevailing challenge in both research and
practice. Public employer branding is an important subject in the theoretical debate, but the …

Public administration (PA) increasingly faces new and emerging challenges. To address
such challenges, researchers can work collaboratively with practitioners to identify and …

A commonly held assumption is that public service motivation (PSM) positively affects
individuals' attraction to government, but there are also private and nonprofit organizations …

Millennials are a substantial segment of the workforce; they are perceived to be driven by
higher pay, quick to be dissatisfied and leave a job, and committed to volunteering. This …

Job advertisements are a crucial first step in the recruitment process. Public sector
organizations overwhelmingly rely on passive recruitment tactics such as written notices …

The public sector provides a broad range of incentives to apply for jobs, but these incentives
have rarely been studied in concert. The present study disentangles how job candidates …

Sector preferences in job choice have rarely been tested empirically across different
administrative systems. We address this gap and apply a between-subject experimental …

Recent evidence shows public service motivation (PSM) may be unrelated to one's
consideration of a public service career. In places where civil service examinations prevail …

What makes public service jobs attractive to citizens? We address this question by studying
several attributes simultaneously, categorizing the signals sent by each attribute as …