Executive Protective Services Case Study

In the consideration of a career within the Executive Protective services field going over the training and qualifications when it comes to perusing a career in this type of field. There’s a high importance when it comes to the training part of becoming an agent of executive protective services and its very essential to the job that a constant education; this being that there is always new information and risk assessments that are developing that would need to be understood. To even be considered for a job within; for example, with the U.S. Secret Service you’d need to be of a very high position to even be recruited by them alone. Soon after newly hired agents have had some field experience, agents are then placed into their perspective assignments
given to them, which is said to be up to about five years at best. In more cases than one it’s an ongoing occurrence that after the agent’s assignment is done for an extensive period of time they have the tendency to return to their home field or to headquarters. Now the qualifications to become an agent would be; for one you most definitely need to be a US citizen along with an age requirement of 21 years old but younger than 37 at the time of being hired as a secret service agent. You must be in the possession of having a valid driver’s license and with that you have to produce proof of having the minimum requirement of a high school diploma or something equal such as a GED. Your vision has to be near perfect along being physically fit and being tip top shape when it comes to your all around health. Lastly another requirement would be that you will have to be able to pass a written exam too, and many other security clearances to even make it that much harder to break into. In conclusion there are a lot of good benefits that come along with becoming an agent like obtaining low cost health insurance; it doesn’t end there you also get paid holiday and sick days as well.