Elements of Success How Type of Secondary Education Credential Helps Predict Enlistee Attrition

• Main Author: Burkhauser, Susan (auth)
• Other Authors: Hanser, Lawrence M. (auth), Hardison, Chaitra M. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2014
• Subjects: Advice on careers & achieving success; Personnel & human resources management; Military history; Business; Management & Organizational Behavior; History
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The U.S. military services have traditionally used a tiering system including education credentials as one element of gauging the likelihood of a recruit persevering through his or her first term of service. To assess the continuing value of this system, the authors compared attrition rates for thos...