As a Personnel Specialist, you'll be an integral part of your assigned personnel's career, from their first days in the Air Guard to their retirement. In this role, you'll be working with Airmen across all fields and departments, as well as with their families. You'll help them initiate and maintain their personnel records, advise them on their career development and the variety of job specialties available to them, as well as counsel military personnel and their dependents on a variety of matters that concern them as members of the Air Guard community. Great people skills and an outgoing personality will come in handy if you choose a career as a Personnel Specialist.

Personnel Specialists are specially trained in:

• Officer and airman classification systems and procedures
• Preparing and maintaining personnel records
• Assignment, promotion, testing, customer service, quality force, personnel readiness, PERSCO and deployment/mobilization procedures
• Interviewing and counseling techniques
• Policies and procedures relating to administrative communications, correspondence, messages, and general office management
• Overall organizational structure and its interrelationship with the mission
• Terminology and procedures employed within functional areas assigned
• Policies, programs, and procedures of agencies administering and providing benefits to military personnel, retirees, and family members
• PDS capabilities and applications; occupational survey procedures
• Benefit programs
• Principles, policies, and concepts of personnel management