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Bodyguard Career Tips for Entering the Industry

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By Doc Rogers

The following is usable information to start your career off on the right track and will help you alleviate potential career problems along the way.

When first starting out in the bodyguard industry, after being properly trained by a recognized organization, you should start thinking about where you want to go and what you want to achieve.  With the increasing risk of crime, terrorism and armed psychopaths worldwide, the sky is the limit when it comes to your bodyguard career potential.

Form a clear picture on how you want your bodyguard career to unfold; make a mental outline and then write down your specific career goals in stages.  Here’s an example you can follow if you’d like:

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Bodyguarding in Today’s Global Economy

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By Doc Rogers

Bodyguards need to plan strategically in order to achieve long-term career success. Obtaining BG assignments can be highly competitive; you should strive not only for optimum client protection, but also client loyalty.  Client loyalty is when your clients come back because you are the best BG choice. You must provide a superior service, the best possible price, with the shortest lead-time. Let’s take a closer look at these three basics.

1. Service. Exceptional bodyguard service starts with good professional training for yourself and hiring the right people for the BG team. Carefully select BG team members who are loyal and discreet. They must have a commitment for delivering extreme levels of BG service with relentless focus in a well-disciplined and methodical manner. Having a highly-skilled BG team not only trained in protective skills, but also in excellent customer service, care and professionalism. This will provide your clients with superior service and your BG team will achieve a higher level of performance.

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Tasers Pros and Cons

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Taser C2 Personal Self-Defense Electronic Control Device - Black

Do you need to buy a Taser?

The basic methodology of executive protection (EP) is the prevention of threats and injury to your client. Being prepared also includes having the means to stop a sudden attacker from harming your client.

We must be armed, but not always necessarily with a firearm. In the EP business when and where we can carry a firearm legally is restrictive and its use is only as a last resort. Warning shots are strictly prohibited. In our business the discharge of a firearm is only for deadly force situations (firing only aimed shots).

Brief Background:

Let’s examine the Tasers pros and cons for EP as a less lethal force option, made by Taser International, Inc. Any weapon that can protect your client during a sudden attack is a good weapon.

The Taser is a less-than-lethal weapon. It uses compressed nitrogen to launch two small barbed probes attached by wires and delivers 50,000 volts and each cycle of electrical current lasts five seconds. The maximum effective range of the M26 and X26 (a smaller model) is approximately 35 feet.

Having used the Taser personally; it has good incapacitating and stopping power against an aggressor. The effect on the aggressor being hit by a Taser includes disorientation, the ability to stand, a high heart rate and dehydration.

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Bodyguard Observation Skills

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By Doc Rogers

The objective of this article is to provide you with a thorough understanding of observation skills necessary to protect your clients from assassination, armed assault, and kidnapping, or… stubbing a toe. The rule in all bodyguard observations is to provide 360 degrees of protection at all times. You must do everything first class, never complacent or lax; keep focused, attacks or accidents can happen in a matter of seconds. As a bodyguard you must be actively aware of everything that is going on around you and your client.

Remain Alert:

Remain alert to counter and reduce threats by individuals, groups, global terrorists and other adversaries to your client and at events; being consciously attuned to any specific threats in the area.

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Best Kept Success Secrets in Bodyguarding

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By Doc Rogers

Many times new agents in the business think that the bodyguard industry is full of secrets. Secrets of getting successful results, getting more work and staying active in the circuit.

The veterans do have an effective strategy for getting the best out of their assignments and careers. The following is a S.E.C.R.E.T. weapon used by many pros in the bodyguarding industry today.

Seek – Seek the best EP training possible, getting the proper training can often make the difference between an average agent and a great one.

Ethical – Knowing the principles of right and wrong conduct in the business, the professional behavior standards and always doing the right thing.

Commitment – Being an agent of energy and commitment on the job. Arriving early and staying late, keeping your pledge to protect the client at all times.

Responsibility – Take responsibility for your EP assignment results and your career. It is your duty and only you are accountable for your EP career.

Exemplary – It does not matter if you are new to the EP business or a seasoned operator, on and off-duty have exemplary behavior, be a model bodyguard and person, one deserving of respect and admiration.

Teamwork – The bodyguard business depends on a lot of things; keeping clients under attentive guard, having your days organized with good planning and, above all, teamwork.

In the end, there are no real secrets to the bodyguard business, just a lot of hard work, planning, personal discipline and most importantly teamwork.  By following the S.E.C.R.E.T. weapon principle you will have a marvelous rewarding bodyguard career. Keep safe and God speed.

Doc Rogers is the author of Corporate Executive Protection – A Manual for Inspiring Corporate Bodyguards and president and CEO of International Corporate Executive Protection Ltd. Doc has earned a Ph.D. in Security Administration from Southwest University and he is SE Asia’s leading expert on executive protection and corporate security. To learn how to make a full time living as a corporate bodyguard visit the websites below for more information.

http://www.trafford.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?Book=182707

http://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Executive-Protection-Inspiring-Bodyguards/dp/1425135927

Bodyguard Services Recession Survival Tips

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By Doc Rogers

The following article provides strategies that should help you retain your present clients, as well as attract more business even in these recessionary times.

In today’s economic climate, present and prospective clients are expecting more for their money when hiring protection. This means we must add more value and better service while doing our core bodyguard duties of keeping the client safe and secure at all times.

We need to be looking for ways to make the client’s life easier; providing them with anything they may want (legally) while doing our job with professional efficiency. As professionals we must pay attention to details, no matter how small.

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