FBI JOBS 101
College Students Get Recruiting Pitch First Hand
05/01/06
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FBI
Exec Robert Casey, Jr. talks with the
students
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It’s not every day that you get to
walk into FBI Headquarters in Washington,
D.C., meet face-to-face with Bureau executives,
and ask wide-ranging questions about our
career opportunities and intelligence and
counterterrorism missions. But students from
the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
campus in Prescott, Arizona, did just that
recently.
The students, all taking courses in the
university’s Global Security and Intelligence
Studies Department, were welcomed by Deputy
Assistant Director Robert Casey, Jr. of the
Bureau’s Directorate of Intelligence. “The
FBI is currently in its biggest period of
evolutionary change in history,” Casey
told them. “Our mission is huge—everything
from international terrorism to intelligence
to chasing down MS-13 gang members.”
“One fascinating thing about working
here is that you can spend the first couple
of years of your career as an agent or analyst
working on counterterrorism, counterintelligence,
or public corruption cases, then shift to
something completely different,” Casey
said.
The students also heard from Supervisory
Special Agent Eddie Winkley about life as
an FBI agent. “Every day you’ll
have to force yourself to go home, because
there’s such interesting work going
on here,” he said. Agent Winkley pointed
out that we’re currently looking for
individuals with specialized experience in
accounting and finance, computer science,
engineering, foreign languages, law, intelligence,
law enforcement, the military, and science
to serve as special agents.
But the FBI needs more than just agents
to protect the nation, Casey told the students. “The
Bureau has roughly 31,000 employees, but
only about 12,000 of them are badge-carrying
agents,” he said. “Close to 20,000
other types of employees support our mission—everything
from IT specialists to language specialists…from
intelligence analysts to administrative staff.”
The students met some of these professionals—FBI
intelligence analysts. These analysts explained
how they synthesize and make sense of intelligence
pouring in from our 56 field offices all
over the country, brief and prepare Bureau
executives for meetings with other members
of the intelligence community, and travel
all over the country on assignment. “It’s
very exciting,” said Intelligence Analyst
Micheline Stamps. “No two days are
the same—ever.”
This year, we plan to hire 750 special
agents and 1,200 support professionals, including
intelligence analysts, IT specialists, chemists
and biologists, lawyers and paralegal specialists,
financial analysts, police officers, human
resource specialists, linguists and translators,
electronic technicians, investigative specialists,
administrative assistants, and more.
Have
these skills and want to join us? Apply
today at FBIjobs.gov!
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