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Katherine B . Boone

stitution were not significant to students' motivation for the RA position.
These findings suggest that housing professionals should focus on the key factors that
motivate RAs-including helping behaviors,
financial obligations, and RA cohesiveness-
when establishing recruitment and selection
processes and should continue using this
focus while students are in the position. While
there was no clear indication that motivation
is impacted by work environment and demographic characteristics, it is to be noted that the
researcher selected certain demographic and
work environment characteristics. There could
be other characteristics or combinations of
characteristics that do impact motivation: age,
major, RA class standing, evaluation of their
own previous RA, prior leadership experiences, size of institution, and size of RA program.

IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE
This research suggests many implications
for practice. Now that a current baseline for
what motivates students to apply for the RA
position has been determined, how those motivational factors correlate to recruitment for
the RA position and the choice of marketing

 .  .  . direct testimonials from current
and past RAs indicating the impact
that the RA position has had on
their success in hiring will help
potential candidates understand
the benefits of the position.
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methods need to be reviewed. Such strategies
will need to go beyond sharing the job description and hosting informational sessions
by gaining a deeper understanding of the
many facets of the RA position and its compensation package. Given the prominent firstplace ranking for helping behaviors, attention
should be paid to highlighting the pieces of
the position that include helping students
and offering testimonials from current or past
residents on the impact of their RA on their
own residential experience. Specifically, understanding how RAs can help residents in a
noteworthy way would prove beneficial in the
recruitment of new RAs.
The results of this inquiry can ideally
provide a data-driven justification to increase
job compensation for this critical student
staff position. Higher education costs are on
the rise, and institutions have been cutting
budgets to keep increases to a minimum (National Center for Education Statistics, 2015).
The ability to increase RA compensation may
prove difficult in this climate. Housing professionals may be in a position to utilize this
study's findings to inform their discussions
about increasing RA compensation levels; it
would at least be helpful for potential applicants to understand the personal and professional compensations they would receive from
being an RA. The opportunity for career and
professional development may not have a price
tag, but it is substantial. Again, direct testimonials from current and past RAs indicating the
impact that the RA position has had on their
success will help potential candidates understand the benefits of the position.
Factor 6 (RA cohesiveness) was also among
the top three factors that motivated RAs.

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