Army Corporal recruiting?

Question

Now i heard horror stories about this job but it sounds like a freaking dream to me. You get to work in your home town. Sure i might be a coffee *****, work all day but that sound like a princess cruise compared to being blown up daily in Iraq. Anyone ever done this before? can you tell me your recruiting experience? whats the chance of a recruiter getting fired just for being shitty at his job?

Answer 1

My honest advice would be, don't do it.

I'm an Army Reservist and my husband is an AGR recruiter. His station has one Corporal recruiter, everyone else is E-5 or higher. Most people are E-6 and E-7.

First, unless you're part of the HRAP (Hometown Recruiter Assistance Program), there is absolutely no guarantee that you will be recruiting in your hometown. You will be recruiting where USAREC wants you to recruit - and they have been known to change orders at the last minute. In our case, we didn't know where we'd go until two weeks before it was time for him to report. So be prepared to go anywhere you're needed.

Second, the quality of your recruiting experience depends on a lot of things - such as where your station is located and whom you work with. The better your station performs, the more you get out of it in terms of days off and time off.

In our area, a typical work week runs Monday through Saturday. A typical day is from 8 in the morning until 8 or 9 o'clock at night. Sometimes nights are later if people are at MEPS or coming back from MEPS, and on days the station does PT, days start earlier as well.

Recruiters don't get fired for being bad recruiters - that is a myth. You have a "training" period and then have to go to the new recruiter board. I have yet to hear of anyone getting kicked out after their nine month mark, at least in this battalion. There are some recruiters here who have not put anyone in the Army in 6 or 9 months - but they're still here. They get a lot of flak for it and have to do useless things like slide packs and self-critiquing sessions that takes up even more of their time, but that doesn't make them better recruiters and they don't get released from recruiting, either.

You would not believe the number of recruiters that I know personally who have tried to volunteer to go to Iraq just to get out of recruiting - most active duty recruiters did not volunteer for recruiting, but were chosen for a recruiting tour, so they'd rather be doing the active duty jobs they were trained to do.

Answer 2

I've done both, first as an FO in 82d Airborne, and now as a Recruiter. I'd rather be in Iraq, because it only lasts for so long then you go home and get a break.

While in recruiter, you're no longer a leader, no matter what anyone says. You're a salesman, trying to sell a product no one wants, unless they walk in the door.

Most people who walk in the door aren't qualified or the Army is their last shot. The few that genuinely want to serve and better their lives and are willing to work for it are hard to find.

If you're still all about it, contact the Recruit the Recruiter team off of www.usarec.army.mil

Answer 3

It goes based on time in service. Although there can be exceptions. In 3 years you can easily make SGT, but your position as team leader or squad leader will directly depend on your skills of leadership.