La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University, Bendigo, VIC, Australia.
Violet Vines Marshman Centre for Rural Health Research, La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University, Bendigo, VIC, Australia.
BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Sep 6;24(1):1038. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-11470-6.
Ensuring a sufficient, appropriately qualified health workforce is of global concern. Understanding the attributes that employers seek is critical in recruitment, retention, and educational design. In physiotherapy, there is a dearth of evidence on desirable attributes that employers seek from early-career physiotherapists. This study directly addresses this gap. The aims of this study were to identify the characteristics of the jobs advertised for early-career physiotherapists in Australia; determine which attributes were most desired when employing an early-career physiotherapist; and identify if there were differences in the attributes required based upon workplace location.
New graduate and early-career physiotherapy job advertisements were collected for six months from 1st October 2020 until 31st March 2021 from SEEK.com.au, a large online employment marketplace that operates across ten countries in the Asia Pacific and Latin America. Job advertisements needed to specify new graduate or early-career physiotherapist eligibility and be located within Australia. Data extraction were completed using QuestionPro. The Modified Monash Model was used to classify rurality of job location. Job advertisements were analysed descriptively and using content analysis to identify attributes.
The search yielded 578 job advertisements with the greatest number collected in October 2020 (25.3%). Of the advertisements, 428 (74.0%) were in metropolitan locations (Modified Monash 1), 47 (8.1%) were in regional (Modified Monash 2), 99 (17.1%) were in rural locations (Modified Monash 3-5), and 4 (0.8%) were in remote locations (Modified Monash 6-7). Most roles were in private practice (63.3%) or aged care (21.7%). The top five attributes requested by employers were client focus, communication and interpersonal skills, team player, willingness to learn, and being able to build rapport, relationships, and networks. Academic results, resilience, and empathy were the least requested attributes. Differences in requested employability attributes increased with rurality.
This study addresses the current knowledge about attributes sought by employers for early-career physiotherapists. The most prevalent attributes requested were client focus and communication and interpersonal skills. This exploration of attributes can help to better prepare graduates for their first roles, align expectations, and increase understanding of priorities for entry level university programs, as well as identify priorities for support during transition to practice. Desired attributes should be clearly defined by employers in recruitment and retention processes.
确保有充足且具备适当资质的卫生人力是全球关注的问题。了解雇主所寻求的属性对于招聘、留用和教育设计至关重要。在物理治疗领域，雇主对早期职业物理治疗师所寻求的理想属性的证据很少。本研究直接解决了这一差距。本研究的目的是确定澳大利亚早期职业物理治疗师广告职位的特点；确定在雇用早期职业物理治疗师时最需要的属性；并确定基于工作地点的不同，所需属性是否存在差异。
从 2020 年 10 月 1 日至 2021 年 3 月 31 日，从 SEEK.com.au 上收集了六个月的新毕业生和早期职业物理治疗师的工作广告，这是一个在亚太地区和拉丁美洲的十个国家运营的大型在线就业市场。工作广告必须指定新毕业生或早期职业物理治疗师的资格，并位于澳大利亚境内。使用 QuestionPro 完成数据提取。使用改良的莫纳什模型对工作地点的农村程度进行分类。对工作广告进行描述性分析和内容分析，以确定属性。
搜索结果产生了 578 个工作广告，其中 2020 年 10 月收集的广告最多（25.3%）。在这些广告中，428 个（74.0%）位于大都市地区（改良的莫纳什 1 级），47 个（8.1%）位于地区（改良的莫纳什 2 级），99 个（17.1%）位于农村地区（改良的莫纳什 3-5 级），4 个（0.8%）位于偏远地区（改良的莫纳什 6-7 级）。大多数角色是在私人诊所（63.3%）或老年护理（21.7%）。雇主最需要的前五项属性是客户导向、沟通和人际交往能力、团队合作精神、学习意愿以及建立融洽关系、关系和网络的能力。学术成绩、适应力和同理心是最不需要的属性。对可雇佣属性的需求差异随着农村程度的增加而增加。
本研究解决了当前关于雇主对早期职业物理治疗师所寻求属性的认识。最常被要求的属性是客户导向和沟通及人际交往能力。对这些属性的探索可以帮助毕业生更好地为他们的第一份工作做好准备，调整期望，并增加对入门级大学课程重点的理解，以及确定在向实践过渡期间支持的重点。雇主应在招聘和留用过程中明确界定所需属性。
