Upskill to Move Up- The Savvy Security Guard

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Upskill to Move Up
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• The Savvy Security Guard

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• If you are a security guard working in Australia,
  there are a lot of opportunities.
• If you are a Sydney security guard then you know
  there is currently a lot of work around as
  investment in private business and public
  infrastructure grows, but there are perceived
  barriers to upwards mobility or career
  progression.
• For most of the guards working at the coalface,
  the opportunities for promotion are few and the
  level of elevation within each successive
  promotion isnt high.

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• As one Sydney security guard put it Once you
  have attained a basic knowledge of what you need
  to be a guard, there isnt much more to the job
  unless you specialise.
• To move up, you need to move into management or
  look at other fields that involve maybe weapons
  training or personal protection.
• It just isnt like other jobs where you get more
  skilled with experience.

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WEAPONS AND COMBAT TRAINING
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• If you want to develop your skills in this area,
  then you will be competing with highly trained
  ex-military personnel or possibly even ex-police
  officers.
• Dont expect to be doing jobs related to these
  types of skills forever.
• There is a limited shelf life for trained
  specialists in these fields and a lot of young
  trainees coming up through the ranks looking for
  this sort of work.

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• There are plenty of other areas where you can
  upskill related to jobs you would need weapons
  training for (example tactical and operational).
  
• Always keep in mind that you are not going to be
  25 forever and plan for your next job after work
  that requires weapons training.

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MANAGEMENT AND LOGISTICS
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• Learning how to manage people is a valuable skill
  and one that you can take to any industry.
• There are lots of options for training from
  industry certifications to university degrees.
• Anyone who can manage an operation is valuable to
  a company. If you are currently working as a
  guard, getting decent management qualifications
  will open a lot of options to you both in the
  security industry and outside it.

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SECURITY EDUCATION
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• If you are a highly-trained security
  professional, then you are probably in a good
  position to perhaps teach those skills to new
  recruits.
• There will always be work in development and
  training and if you are the sort of person that
  enjoys developing talent, then maybe this is a
  field that you can look at for the days where you
  dont want to work as a guard patrolling shopping
  centres or construction sites anymore.

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SECURITY OPERATIONS
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• The staff working in the control rooms behind the
  scenes of big events where crowd control is
  needed know what it is like to be an officer on
  the ground.
• For big events, such as festivals, events that
  require high security focus (such as the Olympics
  or tennis tournaments), sophisticated security
  analysis and operational capability are
  paramount.

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• Being able to develop skills in such a
  specialised field means less competition in an
  elite industry where these sorts of skills are in
  demand.
• At such events, sometimes these jobs will be
  handled by government agencies, especially when
  National Security is a factor, but there will
  often also be work for private companies,
  especially when key personnel from government
  agencies make decisions to form their own
  businesses and have strong relationships with
  consumers of these types of security services.

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CONTACT US

• DALTON SECURITY
• Address lvl 2 36-38 Wentworth Ave
• Surry Hills NSW 2010
• Australia
• Call on 02 9283 9881
• Website http//daltonsecurity.com.au/
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