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64410.04 – Private investigators

Private investigators conduct private investigations for clients and employers.

Overview

Example job titles

  • Polygraph operator
  • Private detective
  • Private investigator

Core competencies

  • Critical Thinking, Decision Making and Problem Solving to devise strategies to overcome obstacles and choose the best course of action quickly, often with incomplete information
  • Oral Communication: Active Listening to gather detailed and reliable information, clarify inconsistencies and build rapport with individuals
  • Inductive Reasoning to draw conclusions from collected data and evidence to form hypotheses about suspects or incidents
  • Pattern Identification to identify patterns to develop insights about a person's activities, behaviour or inconsistent actions
  • Attention to Detail to uncover critical clues that might otherwise be overlooked and ensure the accuracy and completeness of the investigative process
  • Knowledge in Law to ensure investigations are conducted within legal boundaries so collected evidence is admissible in court

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

  • Conduct investigations to locate missing persons
  • Obtain information for use in civil and criminal litigation matters or for other purposes
  • May also conduct polygraph tests (integrity surveys) for clients.

Additional information

No data has been provided for this section.

Similar occupations classified elsewhere

Exclusions:

  • Police investigators and other investigative occupations (41310)

NOC hierarchy breakdown

NOC version

NOC 2021 Version 1.0

Broad occupational category

6 – Sales and service occupations

TEER

4 – Occupations usually require a secondary school diploma; or several weeks of on-the-job training

Major group

64 – Sales and service representatives and other customer and personal services occupations

Sub-major group

644 – Occupations in customer, information and protective services

Minor group

6441 – Security guards and related security service occupations

Unit group

64410 – Security guards and related security service occupations

Occupational profile

64410.04 – Private investigators

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