Need guidance navigating your career or education path? The DOD has an app for that.
Earlier this year the Spouse Education and Career Opportunities program (SECO) launched a new website called My Individual Career Plan, MyICP for short.
The site provides targeted information and links so that spouses can find information about careers, education, training, licensing and even connect with local companies for job opportunities. Spouses will be connected to licensing requirements for the different states as they PCS and the site can recommend steps needed to reach a specific career or education goals.
The gem in the site may be the connection with local employers. SECO also created the Military Spouse Employment Partnership and currently works with 200 companies and organizations who are all committed to hiring military spouses.
Spouses who log on can see which of those partners have job openings near their current duty station.
To access the site spouses' sponsor must be in active duty status for the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps, though the site is open to National Guard and Reserve spouses as well.
Leaving the military? It is only open for 180 days to spouses once their service member separates from the military or retires. Surviving spouses of military members who died while on active duty are also eligible.
To use the site, register first at https://myseco.militaryonesource.mil