Recruiting Strategies to Support the Army's All-Volunteer Force

Abstract

The research described in this report was conducted to improve the Army's ability to use recruiting resources and enlistment eligibility policies effectively to meet enlisted accession requirements under varying recruiting conditions. It assesses potential effects of alternative recruiting resource and enlistment eligibility policies on recruit production and costs. We consider the cost of meeting accession requirements when an optimal mix of television advertising and enlistment incentives is feasible (the baseline strategy) or when an incentive-centric strategy - which favors incentives over other resources due to the faster rate of increasing recruits through incentives - is required.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1085104

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  • Bruce R. Orvis
  • Christopher E. Maerzluft
  • Philip Hall-partyka
  • Steven Garber
  • Tiffany Tsai

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  • RAND Corporation

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  • Administrative Personnel
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  • Intellectual Property
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  • Law
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  • Recruiting
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  • United States

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