It’s no secret that the economy’s still struggling and with the slowdown of bodyguard assignments more and more bodyguards are feeling the pinch. Now is the time to start promoting your bodyguard services, seek external contact with potential clients and employers, get involved and engaged in your service promotion or job efforts. Focus your EP assignment or job search, be interested in people and various companies that have an executive protection unit (EPU) and have a strategy firmly in place to get the interview, the assignment or the job.
Look at various industries that have an EPU (most large corporations have established EPUs). During your service promotion or job search efforts seek out unfamiliar organizations. You need to maintain a sustained effort to find a company that will hire your EP services or hire you as an in-house EP employee. Great strategies in trying times include:
• Spend lots of time actively networking with other EP professionals in the industry.
• Follow up on all potential EP assignment or employment leads despite how unlikely they may seem.
• Post your corporate resume or personal resume on Internet job boards and answer ads and Internet postings on a regular basis.
• Put a structure in place and have a daily plan with goals and objectives (send out resumes, network, follow up on leads, etc).
• Attend bodyguard networking opportunities to increase your knowledge and surround yourself with knowledgeable people in the business.
• Your objective (EP assignment or EP job) should be achieved by any means necessary. Do the things that failures don’t do.
• Up your credentials, additional EP training and accreditation in recessionary times can sometimes mean the difference between tough times survival and road-kill in the EP industry.