The general attitude at my internship is pretty positive. The whole building is shared between the Army, Navy, and Marines. The branches all have offices next to each other and most of the time when they are bored they will go in another respected office and make jokes. There definitely isn't gossiping at the work place and most of the recruiters for each branch are evaluated sometimes by higher rankings. They are driven by their work though because they want to keep their jobs as recruiters. They also want to get promoted as fast as possible so they don't screw around. I don't think that they think of their jobs as just a "job" its pretty much a lifestyle for them because I know for my recruiter he gets up at 5 every morning and doesn't leave the office until about 8. Half of his life is recruiting so it seems that hes pretty consumed by it. This is definitely a job where the people make you want to be apart of it because their whole job is trying to recruit people into the military so they have to make you want it.
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Loving my internship and I feel that spending more time around marines will help me get into the environment I need to be in. My last week at the internship we did a lot of traveling around and I realized that its not a very easy job. Your constantly looking for people and driving people around getting them to where they need to be. For example my recruiter had to get up at 4:30 to pick someone up at 5 to bring them to Boston so that they could swear in. Although since there is a lot of socializing I wouldn't mind doing this job later in my career for the Marines
The industry of Marine recruiting sustains itself economically through the government. Since it is a government organization they fund themselves to stay afloat. I did just find out recently that all the Marine recruiters get paid through their respective rank salaries. In the military the amount of pay you get depends on your rank and it doesn't matter what job you have anyone at a specific rank is going to have the same monthly pay. Unless a certain job is offering bonuses because of a need for men at that job they might get an extra bonus when signing for that job. Knowing how the business sustains itself doesn't affect my perspective on it. One thing though is that recruiters work hard because they want it to look good on their record to possibly get promoted. My recruiter told me that if someone cant talk to high school kids for a job how are they going to lead Marines.
For my industry there really is not a competition between branches. Why? Because everyone is aimed towards the same goal and that is recruiting. Having seen and been in the industry for 2 weeks I have noticed that recruiters like to get together and help each other out. For an example if a recruiter from the Boston area finds a a motivated individual but that individual lives in Newton then he will have to hand the kid over because hes out of district. Generally though there are about 3 recruiters per office if its a big office. Each recruiter has to meet a quota which is around 2 or 3 people a month but on top of that to make the office look good the team will need about 8 people a month. So they will all work together to create a efficient recruiting environment.
My first week in the industry was pretty interesting. Ive found that I enjoy my internship and helping kids stay motivated.Also giving these kids knowledge of what I went through when I enlisted in the Marines. A few things we did that week were visit schools and kids and set up appointments with people. My recruiter says its nice to have me around because I am a good example for all the kids joining.
MY initial idea of the marine recruiting industry was solely based on the few times I had been with my recruiter. Now that I am in his office more I'm getting a closer look at the industry itself. Before I had thought that the job was not that hard and there wasn't much work. Now I know there's more that meets the eye. I had thought beforehand that people would just call and set up appointments with the recruiter. I also thought the recruiter only got potential kids from those who request information. Now I know that there is a lot of hard work in getting people to get in the office / more work in having a huge call list like a telemarketer. As my internship goes on I learn more and more about the industry itself.
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AuthorI am Noah Decaille and I'm 18 years old. In June I will be shipping off to Marine corps boot camp Archives
June 2015
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