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Understanding the Purpose and Benefits of on-the-job
Experience of Internship Requirements
Now that you understand that licensing boards strive
to ensure the public’s safety and interests when
hiring PIs, let’s take a look at experience
requirements. State licensing boards realize that
certain investigative skills and professional
development is not possible without hands-on job
training experience from working on real case
assignments in an actual private investigative
agency. To ensure this, most states now require 36
months of on-the-job experience, also referred to as
an internship or apprenticeship, as a prerequisite
to qualify for state licensing.
To a lesser degree, states enacted the work
experience requirements so that seasoned and
experienced private investigators can pass on skills
to succeeding generations and help maintain a
skilled and productive workforce.
You should view this internship as positive in that
it strengthens areas where a new PI may be lacking
skills, knowledge, and experience. Look upon this
work experience or internship period as an
opportunity and not as an obstacle as it offers a
new PI an opportunity to train with a more
experienced PI mentor who leads and guides by
example and who can provide additional training,
advice, support, and encouragement.
The benefits of working as an intern are many:
- Is a starting point
to build a successful PI career
- Provides incentive
for self-improvement and builds
self-confidence
- Offers a chance to
practice your new investigative skills
on the job while you are learning
- Provides full or
part-time time employment to earn while
you learn from a seasoned PI
- Teaches the inside
knowledge, techniques, and business side
of running a PI business, including
dealing with clients, advertising, using
confidential contacts, and searching
using PI databases
- Offers the
potential of licensing upon completion
of internship
- Helps you amass
experience that you can take from one
employer to another and from one state
to another
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