Five things Army officers and units should know about the Assignment Interactive Module

This reminds me of aviation branch where flight time begets flight time and the rest of us got screwed. Branch personnel managers need to see what you’re not getting and make sure you get it.

Resumes will look the same as the over inflated OERs. I think this process will work one just needs to know where to look for a quality candidate.

I am about a month away from PCS and just did this process. I see your points, sir, but what is supposed to happen is branch managers have the final say as to who goes where with a heavy weight on Soldier and unit preferences. Units do not “bid” for people, they are supposed to rank the possibilities. The part I liked about this is the officer is encouraged to communicate with their desired units. I contacted all units in my top five, sent my ORB, and maintained contact with the POC answering any questions they had. My number one choice then ranked me a 1 as well, and boom, I’m going to my first choice. Not saying this is a significant brick on the path to fixing our talent management problems (more like a pebble, really) but there are aspects of it I do like.