private detective

Job Zone

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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed

Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.

Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.

Occupational interest profile

CEIConventional · Enterprising · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order

• C Conventional5.45
• E Enterprising4.07
• I Investigative3.90
• S Social2.87
• R Realistic2.39
• A Artistic1.42

RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.

Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Private Detectives and Investigators (33-9021.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.

Typically associated skills

Essential (19)

ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.

• analyse legal evidence
• check methods
• check request legitimacy
• check subjects
• civil law
• conduct research interview
• criminal law
• develop investigation strategy
• document evidence
• handle case evidence
• identify customer's needs
• identify suspicious behaviour
• interview techniques
• law enforcement
• manage contracts
• practice vigilance
• provide information
• screen clients
• surveillance methods