Army leaders are discussing recruitment policy changes to begin in the new year but are also looking at ways to make Army careers more enticing, Army Times reported.
“Gen Z…they’re looking for flexible career paths,” Agnes Gereben Schaefer, the service’s assistant secretary for manpower and reserve affairs, told lawmakers Wednesday, citing research. “[That] would cause us to sort of shift away from our hierarchical, siloed career paths that we currently have to more of a ‘jungle gym’ model.”
Schaefer did not yet provide details on how the Army plans to change its career ladder, which is known to be rigid and restrictive.
Army photo by Nathan Clinebelle
