Warrant Officer Prerequisites and Duty Description
420T - Talent Acquisitions Technician
 
***PER the Secretary of the Army’s guidance this is an attribute based selection for this WOMOS and does not follow the process of the other warrant officer selection.****
 
Duties:
A Talent Acquisition (TA) Technician is the TA subject matter expert in a Battalion, Brigade, and higher echelons within the Recruiting, Accessions, and Marketing Enterprises. TA Technicians perform duties as a leader, planner, manager, trainer, technician, subject matter expert and advisor within the command. 
 
***Applicants must meet all Administrative Requirements to become a Warrant Officer***
 
***Currently open to AC and USAR (AGR, TPU, and IMA)***
 
 
Major duties include:
  • Monitor and advise on the full spectrum of Talent Acquisitions for the commander and organization to include advising staff in their respective areas of responsibility by providing expertise to analytics, public relations, marketing, retention and recruiting operations.
  • Develop internal and external networks to build relationships with potential communities or units.  
  • Work closely with the marketing department to develop creative ways for addressing talent acquisition challenges and retention but not limited to conducting regional marketing analysis, developing sustainable marketing plans and a marketing strategy for talent benchmarking, talent assessment and interviewing.
  • Proactively seek market intelligence to gain competitive advantage in attraction, assessment, retention, and sourcing methodologies.
  • Analyzes recruiting and retention trends and market research to implement procedure changes based on policy and regulation changes.
  • Conducts trend analysis that supports the Army’s talent management and workforce planning.
  • Querying HR and Recruiting Information systems and converting data to actionable information for presentation to unit leadership at all echelons.
  • Understand doctrine and how it is nested in the recruiting enterprise, as well as HR regulations and MILPER/ALARACT messages, and be able to interpret for individuals, subordinates, commanders, and directors.
  • Initiate and prepare correspondence to provide information, policy, or guidance.
  • Manage organizational change to implement new programs, systems, or policies.
Minimum required prerequisites, as outlined in AR 135-100:  Minimum prerequisites are required in addition to the basic Administrative Requirements. Lacking any of the prerequisites below requires a waiver from the 420T proponent.  Some prerequisites are not waiverable.​
 
Talent Acquisition Army prerequisites:
  • Must have a GT Score: 110 (IAW AR 135-100). (NON-WAIVERABLE)
  • Must meet the Army’s personnel suitability screening and an in-person Recruiting Candidate Assessment (RCA) requirements prior to being considered a fully qualified candidate (AR 601-1, App B). (NON-WAIVERABLE)
  • Must be an SSG or above. (Waiverable)
  • ALC Graduate. (Waiverable) ALC waivers recognize those NCOs who, through the experiential learning environment, have achieved many or all the Terminal Learning Objectives provided through ALC (institutional learning environments). Waiver must show applicants attempt to meet requirement (ATTRS printout, MFR from Training OFF/NCO).
  • Minimum of five (5) years operational experience. (Waiverable with documented civilian experience that supports experience in the aligned major duties).
  • Minimum of 24 months of leadership experience supervising Soldiers documented on NCOERs. (Waiverable with documented civilian leadership experience).
  • All Applicants who were only assessed as “Most Qualified” or “Highly Qualified” in their evaluations prior to their application submission. (Waiverable)
  • Successful duty performance is considered as a preponderance of the following:
    • DA Form 2166-9-1.  “Met Standard” in Part IVc-h, with strong Rater comments in Part IVi.  “Most Qualified” or “Highly Qualified” with strong Senior Rater comments in Part V.
    • DA Form 2166-9-2.  Preponderance of “Far Exceeded Standard” or “Exceeded Standard” in Part IVc-i, with strong Rater comments in Part IVj; “Most Qualified” or “Highly Qualified” with strong Senior Rater comments in Part V.
  • 60 semester hours of college with a minimum of six (6) semester hours College English Composition I and II or higher such as English Composition, Technical Writing, Business Writing, etc. from an accredited academic institution. Speech and public speaking courses can be considered as meeting this requirement even if administered by the English department of an institution (Waiver required). Successful completion of the CLEP College Composition examination in English or an Bachelors degree are the only acceptable alternatives. Transcripts comprised of only military training credit are not acceptable. The Department of Education maintains a database of accredited postsecondary education institutions and programs at ttp://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
Letter of Recommendation (LOR):
You must have both Company and Battalion Commander LORs. The Senior Warrant Officer LOR will be provided by the AG Proponent based on technical qualification in the form of a memorandum. Additional Letter of Recommendations are acceptable for a total of no more than six (6) to include the Company and Battalion Commander LORs.
Waivers: Applicants must submit a separate waiver request for each prerequisite not met.  Waiver requests must provide justification as to why the waiver should be granted. Submission of a waiver does not constitute automatic approval.
 
Other preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes (KSA): Preferred KSAs strengthens the application.
  • Less than 10 years of AFS
  • Any successful documented Talent Acquisition, Marketing, Data analytics, public relations civilian experience or certifications.
  • Bachelor’s degree (Marketing, Psychology, Human Resources, Any type of data concentration)
  • Recruiting or Retention Experience
  • Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM-CP)
  • Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI) aPHR, PHR, SPHR
  • United Service Military Apprenticeship Program (USMAP) Certifications
  • Documented computer training as evidenced on official transcripts or training certificates.
  • Demonstrated MS Office Proficiency (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and PowerPoint) 
  • 24 months of successful documented Station Commander experience.
  • Senior Leaders Course
  • Guidance Counselor Operations Course (V7)

National Guard:

At this time this is not open to ARNG.

 
 

 

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​Address all warrant officer application questions and inquiries to a Regional Warrant Officer Recruiter.  Please visit the "How Do I Apply" page for required forms and examples. Contact the proponent POCs below for any questions regarding technical qualifications.

 

420T Warrant Officer Proponent:
CW3 Natasha Arnold-Abramson
Email: natasha.a.arnold-abramson.mil@army.mil
DSN:  312-751-8441
COMM:  803-751-8441
 
AG CWOB:
CW5 Chad G. Bowen
DSN:  312-734-8358
COMM:  803-751-8358
Last Update: 16 September 2024