General Info:
Note: This rating is scheduled to merge with the Disbursing Clerk (DK) rating in October 2005 to form a new rating, Personnel Specialist (PS). For details, see NAVADMIN Message 295/04.
Personnelmen provide enlisted people with information and counseling related to Navy occupations, opportunities for general education and job training, requirements for promotion, and rights and benefits. They also assist enlisted people and their families with special problems or personal hardships.
What They Do:
The duties performed by PNs include: providing enlisted people with information and counseling related to Navy occupations, opportunities for general education and job training, requirements for promotion, and rights and benefits; assisting enlisted people and their families with special problems or personal hardships; interviewing personnel; administering tests; making recommendations for assignments; operating computers and copying machines; writing official letters and reports; performing enlisted and officer personnel administration; maintaining enlisted and officer service records, Navy directives and Navy filing.
Detailed List of Required Duties
VE+MK=105 or VE+MK+CS=157
Other Requirements:
None.
Technical Training Information:
Enlistees are taught the fundamentals of this rating through on-the-job training or formal Navy schooling.
Meridian, MS -- 46 calendar days
Familiarization with forms and procedures of personnel administration Group and individualized instruction and practical application. After "A" school, personnelmen may be assigned to ships or shore stations in the United States or overseas. Aboard ships, they are usually assigned to the personnel, administrative or training department. Ashore, they are assigned to personnel support detachments. A typing test is required sometime during training. During a 20-year period in the Navy, PNs spend about 40 percent of their time assigned to fleet units and 60 percent to shore stations.
Working Environment:
The PN rating is usually performed in a clean office environment. People in this rating may work alone with little supervision, or work closely with others under close supervision, depending on individual assignments. They do mostly mental work.
Advancement (Promotion) Trends
College Credits for Training/Experience
Career Progression: None Available.
