Research Guides: U.S. Border Security: Career Resources

Career Resources

Career Guide to Industries
Provides information on available careers by industry, including the nature of the industry, working conditions, employment, occupations in the industry, training and advancement, earnings and benefits, employment outlook. 2010-2011 edition
Career OneStop
From the U.S. Department of Labor, provides a wide variety of information and tools.
Career Outlook
Provides data and information on a variety of topics—including occupations and industries, pay and benefits, and more. These articles are helpful for students, career counselors, jobseekers, and others planning careers.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Excellent resource for researching careers. Includes information about required education and training, job duties, work environment, salary, job outlook, similar occupations, and more.
Texas Workforce Commission
Contains great information for for career exploration, job seekers,and students.
Texas Workforce Commission - Career Exploration and Trends
Broken out of the Texas Workforce Commission site above, tools allow you to explore careers, compare careers and expenses, and match skills with careers.

Career Center Plus™ This link opens in a new window
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Combines everything you need for a successful job search into one easy-to-use online application. First-time users are required to create a personal account.
LearningExpress Library™ This link opens in a new window
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eLearning solution that provides support to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep and more.
O*Net OnLine This link opens in a new window
Provides broad access to information on skills, abilities, knowledges, work activities, and interests associated with almost 1,000 occupations covering the entire U.S. economy. Job seekers can use the available key features to find out which jobs fit with their interests, skills, and experience; explore growth career profiles using the latest available labor market data; maximize earning potential and job satisfaction.
Vocational & Career Collection This link opens in a new window
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Designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs, this database provides full-text coverage for 337 trade and industry related periodicals.

Careers in Border Security

Careers in homeland security
PDF resource from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that discusses the fields that those that study homeland security from the expected Border Patrol agents to the unexcepted Physicists.
Customs broker
Provides a window into the career field of a Customs broker with information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and from interviewing Abbie Booth who is a Customs broker.
Homeland Security Careers
DHS has unique career opportunities to help secure our borders, airports, seaports, and waterways; research and develop the latest security technologies; respond to natural disasters or terrorists’ assaults; and analyze intelligence reports.
Military Careers
A resource from the Occupational Outlook Handbook providing information about required education, training, work environment, salary, job outlook, and more.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Career information for Air and Marine Operations, U.S. Border Patrol, and the Office of Field Operations. Site includes an Applicant Portal, Jobs and Internships for Veterans, Students and Recent Graduates, and more.
USA Jobs
The Federal Government's official employment site. Create a profile so you can you can save jobs, automate job searches, and manage everything you need to complete your application.

Careers from the ONet OnLine*

Provides a more detailed summary and an evaluation with a sufficient amount of details to get a more clear picture of the career in deciding if this is for you and how to get there through insight into the career from job tasks to common workforce characteristics.

Professional Organizations

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
The largest federal employee union proudly representing 700,000 federal and D.C. government workers nationwide and overseas. Provides comprehensive services for members including legal, legislative, communications, technical, educational, political, and union-building assistance.
The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA)
The largest nonpartisan, nonprofit professional association, exclusively representing federal law enforcement officers. Born out of necessity by a group of concerned agents from Customs, IRS-CI, TIGTA, FBI and INS, FLEOA's primary tenet was, and still is, legal assistance and representation are only a phone call away.
National Treasury Employees Union
NTEU represents federal employees in 34 departments and agencies including but not limited to Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers. NTEU also provides a variety of benefits to members from protecting your workplace rights to protecting your wallet

U.S. Border Security

Career Resources

Careers in Border Security

Careers from the O*Net OnLine

Professional Organizations

Careers from the ONet OnLine*