Examine the consumer journey of enlisting in the U.S. Army through the eyes of recruits and recruiters with a focus on the use of paid, owned, and earned digital content marketing effects. The study aims to understand how recruits consumer and process information with regards to decision-making for the "purchase" to join the Army through in-depth interviews that follow the recruits' consumer journeys. This project should provide the Army Recruiting Command and academia with a fresh analysis of how digital content marketing is used and effects job-seeking decision making for signing a lengthy (3-6 years) contract to be an employee of an well-known organizations. Further, it provides co-orientation analysis of how recruits and recruiters both used and experienced digital content marketing efforts.
Thank you for your interest, but this study is recruiting by invitation only.
United States (Nationwide)
James Machado
Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Behavioral or Social
Registry
Veteran Health / Military
Social or Workplace Dynamics
22-3220