This document and trademark(s) contained herein are protected by law. This representation of RAND intellectual property is provided for noncommercial use only. Unauthorized posting of this publication online is prohibited. Permission is given to duplicate this document for personal use only, as long as it is unaltered and complete. Permission is required from RAND to reproduce, or reuse in another form, any of its research documents for commercial use. For information on reprint and linking permissions, please visit www.rand.org/pubs/permissions.The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.Support RAND Make a tax-deductible charitable contribution at www.rand.org/giving/contribute www.rand.org Library of Congress Control Number: 2018947699ISBN: 978-0-8330-9988-4 For more information on this publication, visit www.rand.org/t/RR2267Published by the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. © Copyright 2018 RAND CorporationR® is a registered trademark.iii PrefaceThis report documents research and analysis conducted as part of a project entitled "Optimizing Recruits Screening, Qualification Standards, and Preparation for Training," sponsored by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, and the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1, U.S. Army. The purpose of the project was to provide the Army with a means of identifying the prospective effects of combinations of new recruits' cognitive, noncognitive, physical, demographic, and behavioral attributes on serving successfully and completing their first term, and on related costs, thus enabling the Army to identify potential changes to selection of youth based on these attributes in order to expand supply smartly or to decrease the rates of targeted adverse outcomes.The Project Unique Identification Code (PUIC) for the project that produced this document is RAN167280.This research was conducted within RAND Arroyo Center's Personnel, Training, and Health Program. RAND Arroyo Center, part of the RAND Corporation, is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) sponsored by the United States Army.RAND operates under a "Federal-Wide Assurance" (FWA00003425) and complies with the Code of Federal Regulations for the Protection of Human Subjects Under United States Law (45 CFR 46), also known as "the Common Rule," as well as with the implementation guidance set forth in Department of Defense Instruction 3216.02. As applicable, this compliance includes reviews and approvals by RAND's Institutional Review Board (the Human Subjects Protection Committee) and by the U.S. Army. The views of sources utilized in this report SummarySuccessful completion of the first term of enlistment (or the contract term for recruits with prior service) i...

Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of DefenseApproved for public release; distribution unlimited NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INSTITUTE Limited Print and Electronic Distribution RightsThis document and trademark(s) contained herein are protected by law. This representation of RAND intellectual property is provided for noncommercial use only. Unauthorized posting of this publication online is prohibited. Permission is given to duplicate this document for personal use only, as long as it is unaltered and complete. Permission is required from RAND to reproduce, or reuse in another form, any of its research documents for commercial use. For information on reprint and linking permissions, please visit www.rand.org/pubs/permissions.html.The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.Support RAND Make a tax-deductible charitable contribution at www.rand.org/giving/contribute www.rand.org For more information on this publication, visit www.rand.org/t/TL160-1Published by the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. © Copyright 2017 RAND CorporationR® is a registered trademark.iii PrefaceVeterans have a great deal to offer to potential civilian employers, including valuable nontechnical skills, such as leadership, decisionmaking, being dependable, and attention to detail. However, for civilian employers, understanding the nontechnical skills veterans have developed through military training, education, and on-the-job experience can be challenging, because military and civilian workplace cultures and languages can seem radically different from one another. To help address this issue, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness asked the RAND Corporation to develop prototype tools to translate the valued nontechnical skills that enlisted personnel acquire during military service into civilian terms. This report documents one of the prototype tools, a prototype toolkit for use by civilian employers.In this toolkit, we describe how 19 general skills, important to civilian job success, are developed through on-the-job experience and selected formal military education courses for enlisted personnel in the Army and Marine Corps in selected combat arms occupations. The methodology used to develop the prototype toolkit is detailed in a separate report (available at www.rand.org/t/RR1919). Further, a high-level summary of this toolkit for employers is also available in a separate handout (www.rand.org/t/TL160z5).This prototype toolkit is intended as a packet of materials that can help employers better understand the important general civilian job-related skills that veterans may develop through on-the-job experience and formal courses. The packet begins with a letter from the Office of the...

This document and trademark(s) contained herein are protected by law. This representation of RAND intellectual property is provided for noncommercial use only. Unauthorized posting of this publication online is prohibited. Permission is given to duplicate this document for personal use only, as long as it is unaltered and complete. Permission is required from RAND to reproduce, or reuse in another form, any of its research documents for commercial use. For information on reprint and linking permissions, please visit www.rand.org/pubs/permissions.The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors. For more information on this publication, visit www.rand.org/t/RR1719Published by the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. © Copyright 2017 RAND CorporationR® is a registered trademark. Cover photo by Staff Sgt. Joe Armas/U.S. Army iii PrefaceThis report documents one of the primary tasks of a research project titled "Facilitating AC-to-RC and AC-to-Civilian Transitions." The overall purpose of the project was to assess the level and importance of the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform in Army military occupational specialties (MOSs) to develop improved crosswalks between military and civilian occupations and to make other recommendations to improve the transition process for soldiers leaving the Regular Army.In this report, we discuss the results of occupation surveys administered to soldiers in ten of the most populous Army MOSs, including the knowledge, skills, and abilities rated most important by soldiers in those MOSs, the best-matching civilian occupations, and comparisons with other military-civilian occupation crosswalks.

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