Career Planning (CP)

Thoughtful planning is foundational to a successful Navy career. The Career Planning Career & Life Event (CLE) site can help you achieve the future you always wanted.

  • Download the Navy COOL mobile app and turn your Navy training into certificates and credentials.
  • View your Learning and Development Roadmap (LaDR) to understand the Enlisted career path, including timelines and milestones. 
  • Visit Enlisted and Officer Community Manager pages for updates on the health of your community and recommendations for success. 
  • Visit MilGears for in-service and post-service career goals, credentialing, and academic possibilities.

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Useful Resources

Learn how Career Waypoints (C-WAY) supports Reenlistment, Rating Conversion, and Transition between Active and Reserve.

Learn about the opportunities, policy guidance, and application processes for becoming a Commissioned Officer.

Learn how Learning and Development Roadmap (LaDR) / Occupational and Readiness Standards (OaRS) help you along your Navy career path.

Learn about the Professional Apprenticeship Career Tract (PACT) program as well as the designation path process.

Try chatting with RAIN, the Reserve Artificial Intelligence Navigator (beta).

 

The Selected Reserves (SELRES) Enlisted Community Manager performs a broad range of community management functions.

For general questions, Sailors should contact their CCC or MyNavy Career Center (MNCC) at (833) 330-6622 or askmncc.fct@navy.mil.

For specific rate/rating questions and concerns regarding SELRES service, Sailors should contact the respective Reserve community manager.

For questions related to Reserve benefits and affiliation, Sailors should contact the Navy Recruiting Reserve Command (NRRC) Outreach Team at nrrc_rpac@navy.mil.

For SELRES transition assistance, Sailors should contact the PERS-9 Reserve Processing and Affiliation Center (RPAC) at cto.enlisted@navy.mil.

The Reserve Officer Community Manager is responsible for the community management of 26 Selected Reserve (SELRES) communities and eight Training and Administration of the Reserve (TAR) communities. Community Managers work in support of CNO, DCNO N1, and Navy Enterprises to provide accession plans, promotion plans, retention plans, lateral transfer plans, force shaping plans, incentive plans, force modeling and forecasting, community health assessments, strategic-level options, and other analyses that are timely, data-driven, and accurate.

Learn about the Senior Enlisted Marketplace (SEM) and changes to how enlisted Sailors will be advanced using a billet-based advancement system.

Learn about Sea Shore Flow (SSF), the personnel policy that assigns sea and shore duty tour lengths for each enlisted rating.

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