Marine Corps MOS · Support

8422 Career Prior Service Recruiter

Current service use not established

This code is listed in the directory. Inclusion alone does not confirm current service use.

Overview

A Career Prior Service Recruiter works as a production recruiter and helps manage prior service recruiting efforts. The recruiter may serve as a staff noncommissioned officer in charge, operations chief, recruiter instructor, recruiter school instructor, or assistant recruiter instructor.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

Recruiting operations oversight and improvement
Instruction of prior service recruiters

Civilian Career Paths

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Human Resources Specialist (Recruiting)

Production recruiting experience and responsibility for improving recruiting effectiveness transfer directly to recruitment-focused human resources work.

How to prepare: Complete a civilian hiring-compliance course covering Equal Employment Opportunity guidelines and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

What the civilian work involves

Hire employees and process hiring-related paperwork.
Maintain current knowledge of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and affirmative action guidelines and laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Civilian tools and software (examples)

Workday software
Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)

NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 8422
[1] MOS 8422 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 57676; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01
Supports: Recruiting operations oversight and improvement, Instruction of prior service recruiters, Human Resources Specialist (Recruiting) (O*NET 13-1071.00)
[2]NAVMC 1200.1L MOS 8422: Related SOC titles · MOS 8422 section "e. Related Standard Occupational Classification"
Supports: Human Resources Specialist (Recruiting) (O*NET 13-1071.00)
O*NET: Human Resources Specialists
[3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data
Supports: Human Resources Specialist (Recruiting) (O*NET 13-1071.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 8422

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