New to access

Hello, I am working in the US Air Force, and i am trying to build a simple access database for my unit deployment manager. I am using linked-in learning to try to learn access. But what i need is not busiAccess Web Databasness related, but more human resource. I have looked at some of the pre-built databases and it doesn't really do what i need it to. Does anyone have advice for me? I feel a bit in over my head