these conditions mean that the Army will have to work harder to entice recruits to join. But the Army will also have to work smarter, given limited available resources to support its recruiting effort. In practical terms, the Army must take a hard look at its entire recruiting enterprise and find ways to make it more productive and less costly.

2023年4月7日 · Recruiting older people to enlist in the Army could help with more than just its raw recruiting numbers. In our 2022 RAND study, we found that individuals who enlist over the age of 21 perform better as soldiers on several metrics. For instance, recruits in the 25-to-35 age range were about 15 percent less likely to attrit due to poor ...

2023年12月14日 · Attracting qualified recruits and the costs associated with essential skills training make military recruitment an ongoing challenge; low recruitment affects, among other things, enlistee counts, unit readiness, and morale. RAND has provided objective evaluations and recommendations that support decisionmakers’ efforts to monitor and manage military recruiting, including examinations of ...

2022年1月18日 · The Army also relied more heavily on recruits with prior military service than it did in FY 2019. Relative to FY 2019, the Marine Corps decreased end strength, accessions, retention, and the number of enlistment contracts, but the quality of recruits increased.

2023年11月6日 · The U.S. Army uses a variety of resources and tools to achieve its recruiting mission each year. In this report, the authors present results from an updated version of RAND Corporation's Recruiting Resource Model (RRM), a multipart statistical model that explores how trade-offs between key recruiting resources (bonuses, advertising, and recruiters) affect the Army's ability to achieve ...

2019年12月3日 · Recruiting is the foundation of the U.S. Army's ability to sustain its overall force levels, but recruiting has become very challenging. The author draws on a large body of research on military recruiting and examines tools and resources—including recruiters and recruiting management, selection and eligibility criteria, advertising, bonuses ...

2019年6月3日 · Social media can be used to raise awareness of the Army among the public, but it's especially important for potential recruits and the adults who might influence them. An analysis of how people are engaging with GoArmy.com and the Army's Facebook and Twitter accounts suggests ways the Army could improve its outreach strategy.

2024年3月18日 · Russian Military Wartime Personnel Recruiting and Retention 2022–2023. In this report, the author presents an evaluation of the effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine from February 2022 to August 2023 on Russian military manpower and the potential future impacts to recruiting and retention.

The Army not only missed it, it did so by a historic amount: It also achieved only 75 percent of its goal.4 If the recruiting problem persists, it could hurt operational effectiveness. In the shorter term, the services will continue to fully fill high-priority units, like deploying units, and the shortfall will be felt for lower-priority efforts.

2019年10月22日 · DoD and the U.S. military services have had some success with data-enabled outreach and recruiting. But they could benefit from expanding their adoption of private-sector approaches. For example, recruiters could better target prospects through the use of personally identifiable information and third-party data.