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PEAL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) -- Nearly 1,200 Sailors attended the MyNavy Career Development Symposium (CDS), hosted by Navy Personnel Command, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) Jan. 16-17.
MyNavy CDS brings senior leadership to the Fleet to explain, discuss and answer questions about new and upcoming Sailor 2025 personnel system modernization initiatives. Pacific Fleet Sailors who attended the CDS learned firsthand how these changes will impact their professional and personal lives.
“Choice, flexibility and transparency — that’s what we’re aiming for with Sailor 2025,” said Chief of Naval Personnel, Vice Adm. Robert Burke. “All these transformation processes are being designed around you and your families. We are eliminating administrative distractions to allow for a better work/life balance while allowing you to focus on the mission.”
Sailors saw demonstrations of the new Performance Evaluation system’s coaching tool and a prototype of the Detailing Marketplace and learned about upcoming changes to enlisted advancements. Sailors were encouraged to speak up and ask questions throughout the event, either by using their cellphones to ask questions anonymously or by participating in a senior leadership panel discussion conducted toward the end of each session.
“I’m glad of the changes they’re making,” said Information Systems Technician 1st Class Malcolm Johnson, divisional leading petty officer assigned to Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station, Pacific. “They’re getting rid of some redundancies and inefficiencies we’ve been dealing with.”
CDS has made career management information more accessible by visiting the region and presenting information that can be hard to come by for Sailors new to the Navy and don’t know where to look for it, Johnson added.
Chief Culinary Specialist Robert Tindal, assistant food service officer assigned to JBPHH, said, “We need to change to keep pace with the new technology and expectations of the new Sailors coming in. These updates and new incentives are very much in line with what we will need in the future.”
Detailers and community managers were also available to explain detailing specifics to Sailors, provide advice for future planning and even to provide rating designations to Professional Apprenticeship Career Track (PACT) Sailors.
“It’s amazing to be able to talk and get things done on the spot,” said Navy Counselor 1st Class Iris Valdesmendez, assigned to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 37 (HSM-37).
“I brought Airman Reyes with me to talk to our enlisted community manager (ECM) to see if we could get him a rate, and we were able to negotiate him into becoming an Aviation Structural Mechanic (AM). Normally we have to discuss it over the phone or send paperwork and wait — but he was able to get a job in just one day.”
Airman Matthew Reyes, the newly rated AM assigned to HSM-37, said that he was happy he was able to get the job he had been working toward so quickly since he was able to see his detailer in person.
For videos, stories and information about MyNavy CDS visit: https://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/career/talentmanagement/Pages/CDS.aspx
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| Date Taken: | 01.22.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 01.23.2019 08:16 |
| Story ID: | 307873 |
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