The traditions of the Romanian education and the implementation of the European programs impose that all the military education institutions re-conceive and re-organise the educational process in order to build up 21st century officer. The improvement of recruitment selection methodology, officers’ building-up process according to the new requirements of the military phenomenon, the integration into NATO and European Union will make the subject of a thorough scientific research on the calling for the military career and higher military educational process. Since efficiency in the military field is based on human potential at its best, officer career management becomes an essential element of economy. This is because when the needs and possibilities of the human factor are disregarded most solutions as innovating as they may seem are doomed. The military reform and the modernisation of human resource management are strongly correlated by the bi-univocal relations between them. The reform is the premise of modernisation of army human resource management whereas the army conditions the accomplishment of modernisation. In other words, without trained, competent, and motivate people dedicated to the military profession, there can be no reform and no viable system of army human resource management
Despite the more obvious similarity with other civilian profession, the military profession has a unique character namely the fact that its only “customer” is the nation and the military are professionals in serving the nation. To conclude, it can be asserted that the officer as a prototype of the military professional possesses a intellectual qualification acquired through a long period of academic building-up and that profession exertion implies the application of the technical knowledge to a human context. Higher military education has the difficult task of recruiting, selecting, building-up and perfecting the human resource capable to integrate both into the military system and civilian organisations.
In the context of the military system reform occurring after having acceded to NATO the military higher education has to be aligned to the standards of the European Union and to ensure the protection of graduates by minimising expensive and founding the qualitative development of the two dimensions of their career.
The survey we advanced is circumscribed to the following objectives:
- Increasing the standard of the military profession;
- Optimizing the selection building-up and perfecting processes;
- Minimizing exclusion from the labour market ;
- Offering opportunities for the research development activity.
In order to accomplish these specific objectives the civilian (offer, labour force, competition, target group, and environmental factors) and military labour markets (identifying activities specific to the military field, optimizing the available human capability) have to be analysed. Finding solutions for the two problems represents premise for conceiving for new strategies meant to attract the youth to the military profession. Can our institution face competition and attract human resource with highly exceptional individual psychological quality?