Who Stays and Who Leaves? Identifying Successful Navy Recruits

Abstract

This research memorandum examines the relationship between recruit characteristics and recruit success. The analysis uses three related measures of recruit performance and several recruit characteristics obtained from enlistment applications to determine the characteristics of recruits who are more likely to be successful. Indexes of recruit-success propensity for recruits with different characteristics are calculated for each of the three performance measures. Keywords: Naval personnel, Personnel, Retention, Recruits, Enlisted personnel, Attrition, Performance(Human), DEP(Delayed Entry Program), Aptitude tests, Regression analysis. (sdw)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA197779

Entities

People

  • Aline O. Quester
  • Timothy W. Cooke

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attrition
  • Basic Training
  • Business Administration
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Naval Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Probability
  • Recruiting
  • Recruits
  • Standards
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.