Basic Job Description
A Human Resources Specialists primarily helps Soldiers develop their Army careers, but also provides personnel support and assistance to all divisions of the Army.
Duties performed by Soldiers in this MOS include:
Prepares and processes recommendations for awards and decorations and arranges for awards ceremony. Pre pares, updates, and coordinates requests for evaluations, to include responding to evaluation inquiries. Prepares and monitors requests for promotions and arranges for promotion ceremony, to include promotion declinations, reconsideration for promotions, and arrange for reduction and removal boards for soldiers on local promotion standing lists. Prepares and monitors requests for reductions, trans fers, and discharges. Prepares and monitors requests for identifica tion cards and tags, leaves, and passes, line of duty determination, MILPER data and information management, orders for temporary duty and travel, personnel processing, personnel Security Clearances, training and reassignment, retention, military and special pay pro grams, personnel accounting and strength management, transition processing, legal, meal cards, training soldier support file, and unit administration.
Evaluates personnel qualifications for special assignment. Prepares and processes requests for transfer or reassignment. Processes centralized and decentralized promotions and reduction actions. Processes classiflcationlreclassiflcation actions. Prepares or ders and request for orders. Prepares and maintains officer and enlisted personnel records. Prepares and reviews personnel casualty documents. Monitors suspense actions. Initiates, monitors, processes personnel evaluations. Transfers records. Processes personnel for separation and retirement. Processes and executes Personnel Service Center SIDPERS level procedures and actions. Processes applica tions for OCS, warrant officer flight training, or other training. Processes recommendations for awards and decorations, Processes bars to reenlistment, suspension of favorable personnel actions. Ini tiates action for pass ports and visas.
Training Information
8 weeks, 2 days at at Fort Jackson, SC
ASVAB Score Required: 95 in aptitude area CL
Security Clearance: None Required
Strength Requirement: moderately heavy
Physical Profile Requirement: 323222
Other Requirements
- The ability to type at a minimum speed of 20 net words per minute
Similar Civilian Occupations
- Executive Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
- First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Office and Administrative Support Workers
- Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping
- Office Clerks, General
- Word Processors and Typists
