Naval Service Training Command (NSTC) hosted some of the top Fortune 500 company Human Resource leaders to discuss and compare recruiting and onboarding issues here May 11.

Vice Adm. Robert P. Burke, Chief of Naval Personnel served as the Navy's keynote speaker, talking to members of the Onboarding Talent Council of The Conference Board about how the Navy attracts new recruits, on-boards them, and transforms civilians into Sailors.

"I want to thank you all for listening to how we in the Navy run onboarding, or indoctrination," said Burke. "We are not dissimilar with how many civilian corporations onboard new personnel, which makes all of our collaboration on this council extraordinarily valuable."

This was the first time the Navy has hosted the Conference Board, giving the members a first-hand perspective of how Navy onboarding is run.
Recruit Training Command and Training Support Center staffs also had the opportunity to participate in town hall meetings with Vice Adm. Burke to discuss transformations to Manpower, Training, and Education.

"Information Technology will certainly be an important part of our transformation," said Burke. "But the biggest part will be up to us - how we view our mission, our customers, ourselves, our working relationships with each other and other organizations - it is our own mindset, our culture that is the single most important part of our transformation."

During their visit, board members participated in a tour of Recruit Training Command, the Navy's only Boot Camp, including the Navy's immersive simulation trainer, Battle Stations 21 aboard USS TRAYER. Battle Stations 21 lasts 12 hours and consists of 17 different scenarios of anything that can happen aboard a ship at sea, the pinnacle event in their transformation from civilian to Sailor.

The Conference Board is dedicated to equipping the world's leading corporations with the practical knowledge they need to improve their performance and better serve society. They are an objective, independent source of economic and business knowledge with only one agenda: To help members understand and deal with the most critical issues of the time.
Founded in 1916, The Conference Board is a global, independent business membership and research association working in the public interest. They do this by delivering business insights. They connect senior executives across industries and geographies to share ideas, and their experts create fact-based research and consensus-driven policy statements to help leaders address their most important business issues.

"The Conference Board is a non-profit research and advisory membership organization," said Melodie Thigpen, program director for the Onboarding Talent Council of the Conference Board. "Corporations and military organizations join The Conference Board and everyone that is part of that organization has access to research, to speakers, and to webinars to enhance their skill sets."

Thigpen said that in addition to being part of The Conference Board, members also have the opportunity to participate in different councils like the Onboarding Talent Council, of which Rear Adm. Stephen C. Evans, NSTC commander, is a member.

The board members visit concluded by having breakfast with recruits and serving as special guests at recruit graduation.

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