Last year, in an attempt to get a better understanding of the Skills Gap that exists in the Executive Protection/Secure Transportation profession, ISDA researched the job market. Our goal was to determine the skills, education, and training, and experience that are the most sought after by the Executive Protection job market.

The data was acquired by reviewing full-time job offers related to the security and executive protection profession from 60 companies. The job opportunities were selected from Indeed and ZipRecruiter, two of the most respected job and employment services in the world, as well as LinkedIn.

The data collected were the requirements listed in the job opportunities relating to:

Experience
Skills
Training and Education
From the data that was gathered ISDA produced a white paper. An Example of the Results

40% of all full-time EP jobs require a college degree
20% require EP Training
21.5% required Security Driver Training.
LEO and Military and combinations of both represent close to 50% of the type of experience required (48.4%).
99.92 % need experience that averages out to 5 five years
So if you are looking for a full-time position in EP, your best bet is a college education with experience.

ISDA will be updating the job database for 2017. The report will be available in the Fall.

For the complete 2016 report Click here

Become an ISDA member today

The return on investment (ROI) that members receive for the $75 per year (less than $1.50 per week) is access to exclusive content, in addition to recorded and future webinars, over 300 articles, references, white papers, free books, the opportunity to expand brand awareness by sharing your content through the ISDA network (estimated 7500+ protective services practitioners).

For more information on membership benefits and certification click here.