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Because station commanders and their bosses are rated on how well their subordinates recruit, there is a strong incentive to cut corners to bring in enlistees. If recruiters can't make mission legitimately, their superiors will tell them to push the envelope. "You'll be told to call Johnny or Susan and tell them to lie and say they've never had asthma like they told you, that they don't have a juvenile criminal history," Kagawa says. "That recruiter is going to bend the rules and get the lies told and process the fraudulent paperwork." And if the recruiter...
Inflated Requirements The way things rolled in Houston, it turns out, was especially harsh. Until recently, the Army told prospective recruiters they'd be expected to sign up two recruits a month. "All of your training is geared toward prospecting for and processing at least two enlistments monthly," the Army said on its Recruit the Recruiter website until TIME called to ask about the requirement. Major General Thomas Bostick, USAREC's top general, sent out a 2006 letter declaring that each recruiter "Must Do Two." But if each recruiter did that, the Army would be flooded with more than...
...Cohort known as Gen Y, born between 1978 and 1990 and now flooding into the workplace, "will be more difficult to recruit, retain, motivate, and manage than any other new generation." Why? Raised by once rebellious boomers attempting to be perfect parents, Gen Yers have been coddled since birth, says the author. But given the right structure and boundaries, he says, including "specific deadlines with measurable benchmarks along the way," Gen Y will be "the most high-performing workforce in history for those who know how to manage them properly...
Finally, sit down with our military correspondent Mark Thompson's moving and powerful piece about the hard life of Army recruiters. Their job is one of the most stressful in the military: the number of recruiters who killed themselves last year was triple the overall Army rate. Mark details the tragic suicides of four members of a Texas battalion--men who had fought and survived the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but were unable to handle the often brutal and unnecessary requirements of being a recruiter here at home. Mark's story is a morality tale about another hidden cost...
...time.”Signs of good things to come became apparent when Jones, in his first collegiate game against Springfield, accounted for seven kills and five digs. And while the promise of playing time drew Jones to the Crimson in the first place, the unexpected departure of prized recruit Nikola Ivica pushed the freshman further into the limelight and on to the front lines of a depleted team roster.Always the opportunist, Jones quickly relished his elevated role. “It doesn’t really matter to me where I play,” Jones says...