Recruiting Campaigns

<p>Combining the continued threat of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) and the changing attitudes of the present youth market can the U.S. Army meet its recruitment goals in the upcoming years? This study examines the validity of the United States Army Recruiting Command's (USAREC) current advertising and recruiting campaign. Paramount to discovery is the efficacy of the message and of recruiter training. If either or both send mixed unappealing or confusing signals recruiting will suffer. Meeting recruitment goals is the primary motivation for any advertising campaign just as it is in the Army; therefore USAREC must effectively target its advertising and training in order to meet recruiting goals throughout the first decade of the twenty-first century and beyond. To understand the current generation it is important to know the background of previous generations as each generation is influenced by another. This being said a review of the last five generational cohorts: G.I. Silent Baby Boomers Generation X and Generation Y (referred to as Millennials throughout this paper) explains commonalities and differences in generations as they pertain to military or nonmilitary service. This thesis demonstrates that USAREC is leveraging its knowledge of the youth market through advertising and training. Even though recruiting numbers may wane from time to time the overall messages are parallel to perceived goals traits and desires of the Millennial Generation. USAREC correctly adapted its advertising campaigns and must focus recruiter training on learning who the Millennials are.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><br>