Army MOS · Support

79V Army Reserve Career Counselor (Army Reserve)

Current service use not established

This code is listed in the directory. Inclusion alone does not confirm current service use.

Overview

Army Reserve Career Counselors transfer, counsel, inform, and retain qualified Soldiers across Individual Ready Reserve, Troop Program Unit, Active Guard and Reserve, and Individual Mobilization Augmentee programs. They support retention and vacancy-filling objectives, prospect units for qualified applicants to officer commissioning programs and AGR CMF 79 accessions, and help Army Reserve units execute retention programs and policies.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: GT 100

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: smartbook-611-21-ch10c-fy2025 (source date 2025-12). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

Personnel transfers across Reserve service programs
Applicant sourcing for officer commissioning programs
Critical vacancy staffing and Soldier retention
Unit support for Reserve retention policies

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Human Resources Specialists

Sourcing qualified applicants, transferring Soldiers among Reserve programs, filling critical vacancies, and supporting retention policies translate directly to recruiting and personnel support.

How to prepare: Complete a civilian HR fundamentals course covering hiring procedures, Equal Employment Opportunity requirements, and employment records, then target recruiting or personnel-support openings.

What the civilian work involves

Interpret and explain human resources policies, procedures, laws, standards, or regulations.
Hire employees and process hiring-related paperwork.
Prepare or maintain employment records related to events, such as hiring, termination, leaves, transfers, or promotions, using human resources management system software.

Civilian tools and software (examples)

Microsoft Excel
Workday software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)

Army COOL MOC feed: 79V Army Reserve Career Counselor (Army Reserve)
[1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 79V (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank enlisted, authority codeType enlisted
Supports: Personnel transfers across Reserve service programs, Applicant sourcing for officer commissioning programs, Critical vacancy staffing and Soldier retention, Unit support for Reserve retention policies, Human Resources Specialists (O*NET 13-1071.00)
O*NET: Human Resources Specialists
[2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data
Supports: Human Resources Specialists (O*NET 13-1071.00)

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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 79V. Each history page explains the change.

79V2Retention and Transition NCO, USAR

Descriptions may be summarized for clarity. Verify all information with your branch career counselor or official military documentation before making career decisions.

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