 If you're an officer in the U.S. Army, there's good news regarding your future career path. The Army is fundamentally changing how it selects officers for their next assignments, using a new approach known as the Army Talent Alignment Process. ATAP empowers commanders to build teams, encourages officers to be active in their own hiring, and fosters a transparent and open assignment process. Briefly, here's how it works. It starts with you defining your talents, that unique intersection of your knowledge, skills, behaviors, and preferences. Your knowledge is composed of the facts, information, and skills you've already acquired through your experience, education, or training. For example, you may hold an MBA, have a professional engineering certificate, and a Spanish language proficiency. Your skills are the ability to apply your knowledge to a task. You might be good at carpentry, cross-cultural fluency, and teaching. Your behaviors are the way you conduct yourself and act towards others, like critical thinking, being innovative, and a good listener. Your preferences matter, too. What are your interests, career ambitions, family, and personal goals? You can use ATAP to learn who's looking for the talent you already have. And, commanders can view your resume and contact your references to see if you have the talent they need to fill a specific position. The Army Talent Alignment process offers you more job choices than ever before. Once you update your resume to reflect your unique talents and rank order the jobs you prefer, ATAP matches your data to unit data to achieve optimal individual and unit preference. ATAP is an effective win-win system because it empowers commanders and units to select the officers with the talent they need and gives you greater awareness of what jobs are out there that can help you achieve your goals. It's smart, too, because it is data-rich. The ATAP allows you to convey more information about yourself than ever before. Better information leads to better decisions about how we acquire, develop, employ, and retain our officers. And it's transparent. With ATAP, commanders have the ability to see all available officers while you can view all of the open positions that match your talent and preferences. ATAP, more choices, greater fulfillment. Army Talent Management, placing the right officer in the right assignment at the right time over time.