The Transition Assistance Program provides Soldiers exiting the Army with training and knowledge to prepare them as they enter civilian life, whether it’s pursuing higher education, entrepreneurship or finding a job in the public sector.

On this edition of Your Personnel File, HRC is featuring a rebroadcast of TAP Talk’s “Dress for Success” episode. Typically, employers and hiring managers form a first impression of an applicant within the first seven minutes of the job interview. Walter Herd, TAP national director, and Stacie Provine, TAP strategic communications specialist, discuss the importance of making a good first impression and offer tips on how to dress for success.

The Transition Assistance Program provides Soldiers exiting the Army with training and knowledge to prepare them as they enter civilian life, whether it’s pursuing higher education, entrepreneurship or finding a job in the public sector.

On this edition of Your Personnel File, HRC is featuring a rebroadcast of TAP Talk’s “Dress for Success” episode. Typically, employers and hiring managers form a first impression of an applicant within the first seven minutes of the job interview. Walter Herd, TAP national director, and Stacie Provine, TAP strategic communications specialist, discuss the importance of making a good first impression and offer tips on how to dress for success.

At any given time, some 100,000 Soldiers are serving in the U.S. Army’s Individual Ready Reserve. While many join the IRR because they have a remaining statutory military service obligation, some choose to stay longer. Capt. Coretha Robinson and Sgt. 1st Class Joshua J. Jensen assigned to the Reserve Personnel Management Directorate’s Strategic Sourcing Branch at the U.S. Army Human Resources Command join host Lt. Col. Allie Scott to discuss the benefits the IRR offers Soldiers.

Important links:

IRR/IMA website: https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/12713

Forms Referenced:

DA 3725 ARMY RESERVE STATUS AND ADDRESS VERIFICATION- https://armypubs.army.mil/pub/eforms/DR_a/ARN31907-DA_FORM_3725-000-EFILE-1.pdf

AHRC 4145- I can’t find the link on the HRC website. Request assistance with finding the link outside of the lock.

IMA/IRR Team Email: [email protected]

Enlisted Essential Personnel Services (EPS-E): [email protected]

Officer Essential Personnel Services (EPS-O): [email protected]

IRR Retention: [email protected]

HRC Security Team: [email protected]

The Semiannual Report to Congress April-September 2022 Statistical Highlights. This Executive Summary includes Audit, Evaluations, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Administrative Investigations, and Diversity and Inclusion and Extremism in the Military.

Marketplace is the new way the Army manages talent matching unit and Soldier preferences with the needs of the Army. Recently, the Marketplace Integration Team of the Reserve Personnel Management Directorate conducted two pilots of the Reserve Marketplace. Listen in as Lt. Col. Karey Speten and Maj. C. Jason Wright join host LTC Allie Scott to discuss what they’ve learned.

Each year, the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition offers the opportunity for senior leaders to share ideas and Army industry partners to present their latest projects. In the second episode of this two-part podcast, Col. Will Arnold, Chief of Staff and acting Director of the HRC Talent Alignment and Development Directorate, and Mr. Mark Russo, Deputy Director of the Force Shaping Directorate, join host Lt. Col. Allie Scott to discuss how what they learned at AUSA is being applied in their directorates here at HRC.

Each year, the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition offers the opportunity for senior leaders to share ideas and Army industry partners to present their latest projects. In the first episode of this two-part podcast, Col. Kristin Saling, director of the HRC Innovation Cell, joins host Jenn DeHaan to discuss her greatest takeaways from AUSA 2023, the Army’s modernization efforts, and her recent meeting with Amazon Web Services.

The Army is one of the most diverse organizations in the nation with each Soldier a valuable contributor to the mission because of their backgrounds and perspectives. Today, that means female Soldiers having the same opportunities to Be All They Can Be and maximize their potential. To commemorate Women’s Equality Day, listen as CW5 Maria Martinez, CW3 Andria Mills and MSG Heather Denby join host LTC Allie Scott to describe their experiences in uniform and some of their favorite memories.

Guest speaker Mark Leighton, U.S. Army Leave and Passes Action Officer, discusses the name change from Leave and Passes to the overarching term Absences as well at the recent changes to the Military Parental Leave Policy and upcoming changes in Non-covered Reproductive Health Care and the Bereavement Leave Policy.

Most Americans don’t know that more than 81,000 servicemen from World War II, Korea and Vietnam remain unaccounted for. On this episode, Greg Gardner and Michael Mee, members of HRC’s Past Conflict Repatriation Branch of the Casualty & Mortuary Affairs Operations Division (CMAOD) join host LTC Allie Scott to discuss the active efforts underway to find; recover; and identify those remains and then bring them home for burial. This is a unique episode filled with emotion as they share the experience of bringing closure for family members waiting decades to learn what happened to their loved ones.