Marine Corps Employee Selection Process

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Introduction: Employees form the basis of a successful organization, and the abilities and behavior of workers can vary the performance of an organization significantly. Because respective jobs require specific sets of skills or attributes, selections are essential in ensuring that the most suitable candidates are hired. Employee selection processes are a company’s way of finding out who would be the best candidate for the particular position they are trying to fill. Whether it is from one simple phone interview or multiple interviews with different managers of the company, different businesses come up with what they believe to be the most efficient way to find someone to fill a position. This procedure is put into place so that there …show more content…

An example of this is Department of Defense’s (DoD) use of an industrial-organizational psychologist to assist with the hiring and training of military personnel in the United States Marine Corps. United States Marine Corps serves as an expeditionary force-in-readiness, and its’ mission has been America's expeditionary force in readiness since 1775. The American people’s peace of mind, safety and security is in the hands of those who serve as Marines. That is the reason the selection and training of quality, trustworthy, and dedicated employees are the utmost importance. An applicant must go through an extensive consideration process to gain an employment offer, specifically as a Marine Corps Recruit. The Armed Services Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test used as assessments that carefully screen potential military employees. Such evaluations include logic-based cognitive ability measurement test, artificial language assessments, job knowledge tests and simulation writing assessments. Interestingly, American psychologists Robert Yerkes who is a topic of discussion in many industrial-organizational psychology lectures created these test. Robert Yerkes, commonly known for developing the Army Alpha and Army Beta group tests for mental ability (Spector, 2012.) The Army Alpha and Army Beta tests which were a revised version of the Stanford-Binet test determined …show more content…

Applicants must pass this first phase of testing before getting the opportunity to move to the next stage of testing. In the third assessment; applicants are further screened by completing a physical examination. The examinations are essential because everyone entering the armed forces must be in good health to endure the challenges of basic training and military service. The physical examination consists of height and weight measurements, hearing and vision examinations, urine and blood tests, drug and alcohol tests, joint maneuvers, flexibility, and balance tests which check proper ranges of motion. The final assessment includes an oral interview, job selection, and swearing into the military entry program and assignment of boot-camp date. The purpose of the oral interview is to review all assessments that were taken and validated the outcome of that assessment. Upon completion of the validation and after careful consideration of passing all assessments, physical and oral interview. Applicants may then be assigned his Military Occupation Skill (MOS); in other words, he is assigned his job and is selected to become an employee of the Marine Corps. After the applicant has gone through the grueling process of being chosen as an employee for the U.S. Marine Corps, they will graduate onto an extensive, spaced, and challenging boot-camp training

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