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cherjam · Newbie Joined: 03 Aug 2009 Posts: 2 Career Advice: +0/-0

Hello everyone, i am currently a student in the uk studying CRIMINOLOGY...i was wondering if anyone could help me in finding out any possible career paths I could go down and how I could go about getting them...

Thanks

Cherjam..in desperate need Very Happy

Pauloz · Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:10 am Post subject:

cherjam

You've got a wide open field there, depends where you want to go with it.

The career options include:

Police
Criminal investigator
Forensics
Academic jobs in the criminology field (up to Professorships)

The career tracks in these areas are pretty well mapped, with a series of qualifications and obviously field and other experience, like lab experience, required.

It's the secondary phase, developing the basic criminology degree, which is complex, and you'll need to do some research.

There are tangents in these careers, forms of specialization you may want to check out before making any decisions. Many of these, like forensics, come with a large range of technical skills and other qualifications. Some planning will have to go into approaching these areas, particularly costs, to get the necessary qualifications in things like pathology, biology, and chemistry for forensics. You might branch out into sociology, in the academic roles. In the police jobs, you could become a specialist in one of the investigation areas, which includes police training and academic training.

A word of caution here: You need to both understand and fit comfortably into the cultures in these fields. Police culture, for example, isn't everyone's cup of tea. Forensics is ultra professional, and super technical, some of the most advanced science in the world. It's a quite unique field, and culture. The academic roles are also very much in the pure academic mode, again, not everyone's preferred environment.

Do you have any particularly strong talents in criminology? I ask, because talent is one of the few reliable guides to career choices. These are the areas where you really can perform well, and achieve a lot. You're more confident, and have built in skills. That matters when getting qualifications, too.

You can hit the odd brick wall, trying to do things which just aren't in synch with your talents, and that can unbalance your other efforts. You've got a demanding career track in all these fields, and false starts should be avoided.

Treat your career choices like a forensic investigation, and you won't find it difficult to decide where you want to go.

cherjam · Newbie Joined: 03 Aug 2009 Posts: 2 Career Advice: +0/-0

Hi Paul..

Thank you for ur great advice...i'm am more leaning towards criminal investigations for instance an intelligence analyst...either with the police...SOCA...SIS...Home office etc...

I'm finding it difficult to find out what means i need to take to get into such roles...for instance what work experience would be necessary..

AstraGal · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject: Work Experienc/Training etc

[quote="cherjam"]Hi Paul..

Thank you for ur great advice...i'm am more leaning towards criminal investigations for instance an intelligence analyst...either with the police...SOCA...SIS...Home office etc...

I'm finding it difficult to find out what means i need to take to get into such roles...for instance what work experience would be necessary..[/quote]

Hi Cherjam,

I used to work for a government organisation called 'Connexions - if you click on the link below it will take you to the young peoples section of the website which is called A-Z of occupations here you can select your preferred career it will give you detailed information on what that 'career' entails - *note* if you click on further details at the top it will give you further information on: Duties & Responsibilities, Skills & Personality Qualities required for the role, How to get in to the job role etc.

[url]http://www.connexions-direct.com/jobs4u/index.cfm?pid=18&letter=a[/url]

Hope this information is useful to you.

Good luck!

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