Become a Private Investigator

We always get calls and e-mail from people who want to become a private investigator or want to work with us. Well, working with us is not so easy. We only hire private investigators who are licensed in their state and have the experience we require to ensure that they can deliver what our clients expect. We also have most of our little world covered and do not change players very often.

As far as becoming a private investigator, each state has it’s own requirements while a few have none. A quick Google search will get you the agency responsible for licensing in your state and you can take it from there. (If you can’t find out who licenses PIs in your state, you may want to rethink this as a vocation) Education is often a requirement or a law enforcement background, but more often experience is needed. That is experience working for an agency under the supervision of a private investigator. This is the hard part. How do you find someone that will hire you and train you? In our experience, the large investigative agencies are best for this stuff. They have defined procedures that they can teach you and access to worthwhile cases. The down side is many people want this experience making the jobs difficult to come by and the wages low. If you can find a small outfit that needs help, you might learn more but please understand, no private investigator is excited to teach you what they know only to have you leave and open up down the street to compete against them. If you are still interested, try a Yahoo local search for private investigators near you, check them out to make sure they are not operating out of mom’s basement and send them an actual well written letter on nice paper (no not an e-mail or a shitty fax copy of your resume). They get 100 resumes over the fax and they read none of them. No need to say why e-mail is ignored these days. A blind phone call will also get you very little. Send the letter, maybe two and tell them you will be calling. You will stand our from the crowd. Good Luck.