{"id":37945,"date":"2021-11-29T04:33:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T04:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/11\/29\/how-big-data-might-help-the-marine-corps-improve-recruiting-and-retention\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:19:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:19:58","slug":"how-big-data-might-help-the-marine-corps-improve-recruiting-and-retention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2021\/11\/29\/how-big-data-might-help-the-marine-corps-improve-recruiting-and-retention\/","title":{"rendered":"How big data might help the Marine Corps improve recruiting and retention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Marine Corps plans on using big data to map out careers and, like a \u201cFedEx\u201d package, deliver Marines with needed skills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technology, mixed with user friendly applications, also will be used to give Marines more insight and transparency in their careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf I have a young man or woman that\u2019s going to show up in the Marine Corps, why can\u2019t I work backward?\u201d Lt. Gen. David Ottignon, the deputy commandant for Manpower and Reserve, asked Nov. 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf I know I need him to be in this unit, at this particular date, like a package, why can\u2019t I walk all the way back \u2026 through recruit training and all those stuff that we make them do in combat training, and their schools training, and all the way back to their little town in Iowa \u2026 because I\u2019ve maximized the entire chain of what I can predict this individual needs to be a unit,\u201d Ottignon said, comparing the Marine Corps\u2019 future talent management system to FedEx.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/11\/03\/the-marine-corps-is-about-to-become-pickier-about-who-it-recruits\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6906150.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">The Marine Corps is about to become pickier about whom it recruits<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Here&#039;s how it plans to do that.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ottignon is tasked with implementing Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger\u2019s new talent management system that the Corps hopes will produce an older, more mature and better trained force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To do that the Marine Corps hopes to use data to guide Marines into jobs where they will excel and will ensure they hit all the training, education and assignment milestones needed to have a long-lasting career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Choosing the right job<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the enlisted side, prospective new Marines are currently given a list of contracts they qualify for primarily based on armed services vocational aptitude battery, or ASVAB, scores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those contracts cover an umbrella of jobs that may be vaguely related. From there, what job that Marine gets is based entirely on what the Corps needs when he or she ships to boot camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, in 2022, the Marine Corps will start giving prospective Marines a wider variety of tests in an attempt to improve the Corps\u2019 ability to match skills with the actual jobs they want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The test system is known as the Marine Corps occupational specialty matching tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Corps hopes the system is fully operational by 2024, Maj. Bob Jankowski, with Marine Corps Manpower and Reserve Affairs, told reporters Nov. 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBetter aligning Marines to an (military occupational specialty) that aligns with both their interests and abilities will have positive impacts on retention,\u201d Jankowski said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Marine Corps is still fine-tuning what the new process will look like, said Maj. Jason Oldenkamp, with Marine Corps Recruiting Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMoving forward the (Marine Corps occupational specialty matching tool) ideally it\u2019s going to help identify those abilities, talents, desires of the applicant that maybe gets more of a narrow (military occupational specialty) or just better identifies the actual path,\u201d Oldenkamp said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A hybrid method will likely be used in the future, Maj. Gen. Jason Bohm, the commander of Marine Corps Recruiting Command, thinks, one that sees some Marines sign umbrella contracts while others sign job-specific ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The extra tests will also be used to ideally better predict who will have a successful career and who may not make it through their first enlistment, which will allow the Marine Corps to be more selective about who actually gets to stand on the recruit depot yellow footprints. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The extra tests will be applied to the officer side as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers currently rank job preferences as they graduate from The Basic School and are assigned to those jobs based on their class ranking, preference ranking and the needs of the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When these tests are implemented, the new officers will have a chance to discuss the results to ensure they are ranking their preferences based on their strengths and desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re actually given them an opportunity to have a best fit for them in the assignment, where they would be happier,\u201d Bohm said. \u201cAnd if you\u2019re happier in your assignment, not just doing what dad told you to do, or because you didn\u2019t know any better, but something you\u2019re actually best suited for and would be happier doing that\u2019s going to help our retention efforts as well.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Rest of the career<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Corps will track 14,000 data points for each Marine in the force, said Paul Bennet, a civilian who provides oversight to the Marine Corps technology development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data is available to every force commander who can see on an almost day-by-day basis what skills they have and where the Marines in their unit may be falling behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Corps as a whole will use that data to better understand the force and ensure that it is developing Marines with the skills needed decades into the future, Ottignon said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One such method is the retention prediction network, which is supposed to track Marines at different career milestones and predict the likeliness of that Marine successfully completing an assignment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project was launched in 2018 and sees the Corps working with Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Jankowski said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The extra information will allow Marine officers to choose between a command track and a staff officer track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat is completely different from what we have done for decades in the Marine Corps, which said, \u2018in order for you to be a successful staff officer, you needed to be a commander,\u2019\u201d Ottignon said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat will be a cultural shift to have that choice,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Corps is still determining exactly when in an officer\u2019s career he or she will be provided the choice to follow a staff career or a command career.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/11\/15\/treat-people-like-human-beings-here-are-some-of-the-ways-the-marines-are-trying-to-improve-retention\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/marine-raiders-1.jpg-1.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Here are some of the ways the Marines are trying to improve retention<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">&quot;Treat people like human beings,&quot; for one.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alongside that data collection, the Corps says it will run tests to ensure biases are not making it into the system and promoting a force that is too similar in terms of experience and thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf the model predicts that one demographic group is going to be successful, less frequently than a different demographic group, but that doesn\u2019t match reality, then we dig into the model and try to figure out why those predictions are happening before we put anything into place,\u201d Jankowski said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Corps has identified diversity of thought and experience as key to making the force better at creative decision-making and more lethal on the battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is all about lethality and warfighting,\u201d Brig. Gen. A.T. Williamson, director of Manpower, Plans and Policy said in August at the Navy League\u2019s Sea-Air-Apace 2021 conference in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/08\/10\/a-diverse-corps-is-necessary-to-implement-future-force-design-top-official-says\/\" target=\"_blank\"> National Harbor, Maryland.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s challenging; it is full of problem sets that one group \u2014 that one team \u2014 are not going to be able to solve alone,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to be able to open up the diversity of thought, of experience, of background, to try and attract people who are going to help us solve those very complex problems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Corps is also developing applications that will allow every Marine to have more access to that data, given them increased transparency about their career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently Marines can look at their own<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2020\/09\/04\/no-more-free-points-a-look-inside-the-corps-upcoming-junior-marine-promotion-system\/\" target=\"_blank\"> junior enlisted performance evaluation system<\/a> scores that show where they rank among their peers in three different areas of performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eventually Marines will be able to view open assignments that they will be able to apply for within a talent marketplace, Berger\u2019s Talent Management 2030 said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe visibility of what\u2019s going to be available and the interaction that commands will actually be able to input as well \u2026 it\u2019ll be a lot more transparent,\u201d Col. 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