By Harold F. Coyne, Jr., PPS

For centuries, personal protection has played a
vital role in security. In the past, only royalty or the rich and famous required protection agents. In today’s business-driven world, however, corporations have increasingly required personal protection for company executives, especially for those executives with a high-level of authority and influence.

As the use of personal protection agents has increased in the corporate world, so have the requirements for those serving as protection agents. No longer are protection agents bodyguards standing in front of doors. Agents must have business etiquette and manners, dress appropriately, be able to work with computers and technology and, above all, understand that being a protection professional goes far beyond the willingness to take a bullet.

Protection professionals will save the day more often by knowing the locations of the client’s (often referred to as the principle) glasses, the closest bathroom and the nearest fax machine, than by rescuing an executive from a personal attack. How does a protection agent achieve all of this? The answer is advance work. (more…)

Gavin de Becker & Associates

CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES!

We are looking for qualified candidates for immediate, full-time and part-time positions in the New York City area.

Our firm is selected to protect the world’s most prominent people, entertainment figures, politicians, and major corporate executives.

Our work is high-stakes and requires the best candidates.

Our associates travel with clients to public appearances, foreign countries, film locations, etc. Most of our associates are assigned to fulltime Command Centers where they monitor the environment, admit vendors, welcome guests, and monitor cameras, listening devices, and other detection systems.

The Command Centers are independent security offices built at our client’s estates or places of business. Providing 24-hour protective operations to our fulltime clients is our main focus, and we are searching for impressive candidates who can adapt to any environment.

Although many of our entry-level security agents come from elite military units and have extensive protective experience, all candidates go through our Training Academy to learn specifically about high-level protective practices and strategies.

Conduct your own research about Gavin de Becker & Associates, and you’ll see we are widely known as the world’s leading pioneers and service providers in high-level personal protection.

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How to gain experience through non-conventional avenues.

Source: EP Women

You’ve got your training what now? You get your first phone call for work and the person on the other end says “tell me about your background?” If your answer includes former law enforcement or military you’ve probably been moved to the top of the pile. If you can’t include these “golden” words in describing your history how can you compete? How do you gain experience when you’re passed over because you have no experience?

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