MyNavy HR Navy Region Southeast Career Development Symposium Wraps Up

Photo By Chief Petty Officer Michael Russell | MAYPORT, Fla. (Nov. 18, 2019) Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. John Nowell, engages with Sailors during a MyNavyHR Career Development Symposium at Naval Station Mayport. The symposium aims to empower Sailors with the knowledge and tools they need to successfully manage their careers. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Michael Russell/Released)  

UNITED STATES

11.20.2019

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Navy Personnel Command

Kings Bay, Ga. -- The MyNavy HR Career Development Symposium (CDS), hosted by Navy Personnel Command, visited Sailors stationed throughout Navy Region Southeast at Naval Station Mayport, Naval Air Station Jacksonville and Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay Nov. 18-20.

CDS brings senior MyNavy HR leadership, subject matter experts and the detailing and community management teams directly to Sailors to provide career development information, showcase new and emerging Navy programs and initiatives, explain how these changes will be affecting them, and offer Sailors the opportunity to ask questions and voice concerns.

“This is a really exciting time to be in the U.S. Navy,” said Vice Adm. John Nowell, Chief of Naval Personnel (CNP). “We’re modernizing what we do, not just our technology on ships, but how you get orders, PCS and get paid. If we want to win the war for talent, we must modernize in everything we do and we’re doing just that.”

The symposium gave Sailors a detailed first look at multiple ongoing MyNavy HR initiatives that included Sailor 2025, MyNavy Career Center, My PCS Mobile, MyNavy Assignment, enlisted advancement and career development topics.

“This is about repurposing your time and your energy so you can focus on the high end war fight,” said Rear Adm. Jeff Hughes, Commander, Navy Personnel Command. “This event allows us to hear the great ideas from Sailors in the Fleet and rapidly adjust our processes to provide outstanding customer experience and ultimately combat readiness.”

Senior leaders including Nowell, Hughes, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Russell Smith, and senior community managers and detailers also answered a range of questions and discussed major improvements happening across the MyNavy HR team

“All of the things we are doing in this realm of HR, training and education and ready relevant learning is designed to make us more efficient and to recycle time because time is a precious resource that we can’t get back,” said MCPON Smith. “We want to recycle that time back to the deckplates so that you can use it to get better at what you do. Every rate leads to lethality so we need you to be focused.”

In addition to engaging with the speakers, Sailors met with detailers, community managers, and a wide array of advisors for programs such as Shore Special Programs, Voluntary Education, and Career Waypoints. The symposium aims to empower Sailors with the knowledge and tools they need to successfully manage their careers.

“We are modernizing the processes. We are making some big changes, and we are reorienting everything we do around the customer,” said Hughes.

This CDS was the first public demonstration of the highly anticipated “MyNavy Assignment,” the next generation detailing marketplace.

“I am really going to enjoy MyNavy Assignment,” said Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Angelica Portillo, assigned to Naval Branch Health Clinic Key West. “It gives Sailors a sense of having more control of where they are possibly going next, instead of having only five choices and hoping that they get picked for orders.”

More than 2,000 Sailors attended the events across region Southeast at the separate events hosted on Naval Station Mayport, Naval Air Station Jacksonville and Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay.

For videos, stories and information about MyNavy CDS visit: https://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/career/talentmanagement/Pages/CDS.aspx

-USN-

• Date Taken: 11.20.2019
• Date Posted: 11.20.2019 16:19
• Story ID: 352678
• Location: US