Recruitment And Mentorship Plan For Enlisted Aide Program

The Enlisted Aide Program doesn’t have a standardize recruitment and mentorship plan. Single aide Enlisted Aides have no direct leadership above them. This causes inexperienced Enlisted Aides to be fired within a few months of checking in. The Enlisted Aide Program Manager needs to implement a plan to standardize a recruitment and mentorship plan. The Enlisted Aide Community is struggling with recruitment of top qualified candidates to fill these high priority billets. Until recently, Sailors weren’t aware of the Enlisted Aide Program. As fleet Sailors found out about the Enlisted Aide Program, their senior leaders had nothing but negative things to say about the Enlisted Aide Program, thus discouraging young Sailors from being interested in the Enlisted Aide Program. Needless to say, the senior Fleet CS’ looked down on the Enlisted Aide Program CS. Having this type of mindset of the senior fleet CS’ putting out negative points to the junior CS’, no junior CS wants to apply for the Enlisted Aide Program. This leaves our Detailer with a difficult time of recruiting new Enlisted Aides. Also, without funding available for the Detailer to do fleet visits to talk about the Enlisted Aide Program, it’s even harder to get the word out to our fleet Sailors about this Special Program available to all CS’. Assigning Regional Mentors in major fleet concentrated areas can assist the Detailer in recruiting and screening future Enlisted Aides. Senior Enlisted Aides assigned as a