I want to be an FBI agent. What should I do?

The FBI is the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Agents are divided into field and back office, and are federal civil servants. Applicants first apply online, and the FBI first filters out those who have criminal records. The rest meet the requirements stipulated by the FBI: American citizens, aged between 23 and 36, with more than three years of full-time work experience, bachelor degree or above, physics, computer science, information technology, engineering, accounting, finance and economics, law enforcement or other disciplines related to investigation, as well as military, intelligence, language and other fields. If you are a linguistics student, you must be proficient in many languages. Therefore, people who apply for the FBI have many occupations, including ordinary staff, doctors, teachers, civil servants and so on. The first batch of screened-out people will receive a written notice from the FBI. These people came to the FBI for written tests and interviews. But before that, the FBI had already taken an exam. That is, the background of these applicants was investigated in detail. Applicants must undergo polygraph, illegal drugs, credit records and other tests, and even former and current colleagues, neighbors, friends and teachers will be the objects of inquiry. After all suspicious things are eliminated, these people will enter the written test and interview stage. At this stage, it is also difficult to pass. According to statistics, the pass rate is only 15%. And these people who pass are only quasi-FBI, and they need hard and step-by-step training before they can be formally accepted by the FBI.

Under normal circumstances, students train for three months each semester and attend classes for five days a week. Class time is from 9 am to 9 pm every day. If the study task is heavy, add classes on Saturday and Sunday. The training place is in the Justice Department of Washington State or the nearby Guantico Naval Base in Virginia, and it is also a school established by Hoover to train the FBI. After the trainees entered the secret service training center, they began trivial procedures: filling out forms, signing documents and visiting various offices. During the training, instructors often remind these people that although they will come here through decisive battle, this is only the beginning, because only one of them can stand the rigorous examination and test and is finally appointed as an agent. The tutor told them that they are "top", "essence" and "the most selective people in the world". And instill pride in them: FBI agents must be "a little higher" than any other government official, just as the FBI itself is above all other federal government agencies.

After the students have a sense of pride, the instructor immediately instills personal heroism. This is an American culture and a compulsory course for the FBI. In the class, the lecturer told an emotional story about the heroes in the history of the FBI. Walter Walsh, the shooting hero in the FBI, is often mentioned only because he can kill his opponent after being shot in the heart.

Of course, for loyal thoughts, these personal heroism are just extracurricular exercises. In the next teaching, students will be instilled with strong loyalty. The FBI stipulates that every student must swear allegiance to the Constitution, defend it and attack anyone regarded as an enemy by the United States. Every student must be loyal to the FBI. In the Hoover era, there is one more thing that must be loyal to Director Hoover.

Although this article has been abolished after Hoover's death, it is still a ghost. Tutors often tell students that the FBI is "the greatest organization imaginable by the human brain" and ask students to remember the famous American writer Emerson's motto that "an institution is an extended shadow of a person". Obviously, the agency naturally refers to the Federal Bureau of Investigation; And the "extended shadow" obviously refers to the legendary Hoover of the FBI. Even in today's FBI training class, students will often hear these two sentences. The difference is that no director can reach the height of Hoover. There are many contents in the trainees' training. During the 20-week course, quasi-agents should not only learn shooting and fighting skills, but also master the knowledge and skills of intelligence gathering, analysis, legal and strategic tactics application, and also participate in simulated actual combat. Most of the contents of the training course can be reflected in the graduation examination subjects after the training. The original examination subjects of FBI students in the United States have six main subjects and nine minor subjects. The main subjects are federal criminal law and investigation methods, and the minor subjects are court appearance skills, gun use and even crime scene search and speech. The passing line is 85 points. After the examination paper was handed in, no one knew whether it had been accepted or not, nor did they know the results. They can only wait for the official employment notice from the FBI. After the exam, the accepted students will receive an envelope telling them which branch or office they work in. As the teacher instilled in the students, the FBI is indeed one head higher than all other agencies of the federal government. As can be seen from the treatment of agents, the basic salary of most agents is $57,000 per year, which is much higher than the average salary in the United States, and this is only the income of junior agents.