Indian-Navy-Officer
Indian Navy’s officers and sailors protect India’s ocean borders and water territories to prevent and defeat any territorial aggression of other nations during war times. They work in close coordination with the Indian Army and Indian Air Force to defeat any attack to Indian territories, including land and sea. They also pursue India’s political and military interests such as helping another nation to protect itself from enemy attacks.
Ocean borders are called maritime borders, which denote limits of territorial waters. India’s ocean borders and water territories lie in the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. During peace time, that is, when there is no war, Indian Navy guards India’s maritime borders with other forces such as Indian Coast Guard and work as a deterrent to any threat of maritime aggression from other countries. Strength of Indian Navy is critically important to ensure the nation’s security objectives.
Organisation
Indian Navy is organised in three principal commands for protecting the water territories – The Western Naval Command based out of Mumbai, The Eastern Naval Command based out of Visakhapatnam, and the Southern Naval Command based out of Kochi.
Besides these Command Centres, Indian Navy also have bases at various ports such as Kandla, Mumbai, JNPT, Kolkata-Haldia, Paradip, Visakhapatnam, Chennai, etc. These ports are used by merchant navy ships and passenger cruises. Merchant Navy ships include goods carriers and oil carriers. These ships use various sea routes, guarding and protection of which are also the responsibility of the Indian Navy.
Indian Navy Fleet
Indian Navy’s fleet include aircraft carriers, landing ship tanks, destroyers, frigates, corvettes, offshore petrol vessels, nuclear submarines and other submarines. Indian Navy also operate various types of aircraft called naval aircrafts from a number of naval air stations.
Indian Navy’s Weapon Systems
Indian Navy operates sophisticated weapon systems such as ballistic missiles, cruise and anti-ship missiles, air to air missiles, surface to air missiles, torpedoes, anti-submarines rocket launchers, etc.
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Job Profiles of Indian Navy Officers
You can join Indian either as a Permanent Commission or Short Service Commission Officer or as a Sailor. Short Service Commission (SSC) is for 14 years. Permanent Commissions is for lifetime till your age of retirement. In Indian Navy you can get to do varied types of work from technical work and flying navy aircraft to playing music and cooking food.
Check out the work profile of various branches and services of Indian Navy across the various branches:
Work profile of the Indian Navy Executive Branch Officers
Work profile of the Indian Navy Engineering Branch Officers
As an Engineer (General Service) Officer, you will be involved in operating and maintenance of various marine engineering equipment, machinery and systems onboard of ships and submarines as well as navy aircrafts. You may also get involved at dockyards in repair and maintenance work. You may also find work as a Design Engineer and Production to contribute in indigenous naval ship building.
As a Submarine Engineer Officer, you will be involved in operating and maintenance of various sophisticated equipment, machinery and systems such as hi-tech propulsion systems, electronic communication and navigation systems, etc.
As a Naval Architect (Officer), you will be involved in design, development, construction, repair and maintenance of Naval vessels like warships and submarines.
Work profile of the Indian Navy Electrical Branch Officers
As an Electrical Officer, you will be responsible for maintaining various sophisticated weapon systems such as missile systems, communication systems, observation systems, and combat management systems onboard warships. You will be running power distribution systems and networks.
As a Submarine Electrical Officer, you will be responsible for maintaining various weapon systems, communication systems and power distribution systems as well as all electrical systems and equipment onboard of submarines.
Work profile of the Indian Navy Education Branch Officers
Indian Navy Education Branch Officers are responsible for education, training and development requirement of all the Indian Navy personnel including Officers and Sailors.
Indian Navy Commandos (MARCOS):
Indian Navy Commandos carry out special operations such as war against terrorists in land and water, hostage rescue missions, search and rescue during war, clandestine operations against enemy forces in land and water, operations behind enemy lines in foreign countries, counterinsurgency operations, etc.
The MARCOS commandos are selected from among the best of the officers for training as commandos and the selected officers undergo a 2-year’s special training to become commandos.
Work profile of the Indian Navy Medical Branch Officers
Indian Navy Medical Officers are cadres of the coveted Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS). You will be working as a Physician after your MBBS or as a Consultant / Surgeon after MD/MS degree or as a Dentist after BDS / as a Dental Surgeon or Consultant after your MDS.
Occupational Interests:
Enterprising: You should have interests for Enterprising Occupations. Enterprising occupations involve taking initiatives, initiating actions, and planning to achieve goals, often business goals. These involve gathering resources and leading people to get things done. These require decision making, risk taking and action orientation.
Realistic: You should have interests for Realistic Occupations. Realistic occupations involve more practical and hands-on activities than paperwork or office work. Realistic occupations often involve physical activities for getting things done using various tools and equipment.
Investigative: You should have interests for Investigative Occupations. Investigative occupations involve working with ideas and quite a lot of thinking, often abstract or conceptual thinking. These involve learning about facts and figures; involve use of data analysis, assessment of situations, decision making and problem solving.
Abilities
Abstract Reasoning: The ability to understand ideas which are not expressed in words or numbers; the ability to understand concepts which are not clearly expressed verbally or otherwise.
Articulation: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
Bodily-Kinaesthetic Intelligence: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and bodily motion; the ability to keep or regain your body balance when in an unstable position; the ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, hands, arms, fingers, or legs.
Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules and common logic to specific problems to produce answers that are logical and make sense. For example, understanding the reasons behind an event or a situation using general rules and common logic.
Emotional Intelligence: The ability to understand your own and others' emotions and feelings; empathy for others; adjusting your behaviour or self-control and self-regulation according to others' emptions and situations.
Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
Hand-Eye Coordination: The ability to make quick and precise hand movements as per visual observations and understanding (that is, what you see and comprehend).
Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information from various sources, concepts, and theories to form general rules or conclusions. For example, analysing various events or situations to come out with a set of rules or conclusions.
Inter-Personal: The ability to build and maintain good relationships with others at workplaces and elsewhere.
Intrapersonal: The ability to clearly understand your strengths and weaknesses, what your capabilities are, what you can do and cannot do, what you like and dislike.
Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
Mental Stamina: The ability to sustain prolonged mental effort.
Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Numerical Reasoning: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and perform other basic numerical calculations correctly.
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
Physical Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a long period of time without being distracted.
Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
Verbal Reasoning: The ability to think and reason with words; the ability to reason out ideas expressed in words.
Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Knowledge
English Language: Knowledge about English grammar, words, spelling, sentence construction, using English to communicate with others, reading in English, etc.
Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to maintain law and order situations, providing state or national security for protecting geographical territories, marine territories and sky from potential enemy attacks and protecting people and properties.
Skills
Active Learning: Focused and continuous learning from various sources of information, observation and otherwise for application in getting work done.
Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, understanding the points being made by others, asking questions, etc.
Communication in English: Skills in communicating effectively in writing as well as verbally with others in English language.
Communication in Vernacular Languages: Skills in communicating effectively in writing as well as verbally with others in a local or indigenous language such as Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Bengali, Assamese, etc.
Coordination: Skills in working together with other people to get things done.
Critical Thinking: Skills in analysis of complex situations, using of logic and reasoning to understand the situations and take appropriate actions or make interpretations and inferences.
Directing: Skills in directing others' actions to get things done.
Instruction: Skills in training others how to do something.
Judgment and Decision Making: Skills in considering pros and cons of various decision alternatives; considering costs and benefits; taking appropriate and suitable decisions.
Managing Human Resources: Skills in motivating, developing, and leading people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
Negotiation: Skills in bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
Persuasion: Skills in persuading others to change their minds or behaviour.
Problem Solving: Skills in analysis and understanding of problems, evaluating various options to solve the problems and using the best option to solve the problems.
Reading Comprehension: Skills in understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
Supervising: Skills in Supervising and monitoring performance of others, businesses, and different projects.
Technical: Skills in using various technologies and technical methods to get things done or solve problems.
Time Management: Skills in prioritizing work, managing time effectively.
Personality
You are always or mostly organised in your day-to-day life and activities.
You are always or mostly careful about your actions and behaviour.
You are always or mostly disciplined in your action and behaviour.
You are always calm or generally remain calm in most situations.
You are helpful to others sometimes.You don't trust others easily.
You are always practical or in most situations.
You always or mostly prefer to stick within a routine or carry out routine and repetitive activities.
