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What interests you?

  • Current events
  • Helping people solve problems
  • Volunteering
  • Providing community outreach
  • Serving the public interest
  • The court system
  • Knowing and following laws and rules
  • helper pushes wheelchair in airport
  • ambulance in coned area
  • police officer on duty
  • holding hands
  • crowd in a public park
  • fire fighter stands in front of burning building holding hose spraying water
  • empty gurney sits in an ambulance
  • five hands interlocked at the wrists
  • officer gives high five to young child
  • handcuffs on a police officer's belt
  • social workers comfort woman
  • yellow police tape reads crime scene do not cross

Check out these careers:

Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers sit in patrol car
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officer
annual salary range
$62,810 to $134,430
Security Guard going down escalator in shopping mall
Security Guard
annual salary range
$21,930 to $47,300
Emergency Medical Technician and Paramedic adminsters help to patient
Emergency Medical Technician and Paramedic
annual salary range
$22,610 to $59,070
fire fighter stands in front of burning building
Fire Fighters
annual salary range
$24,474-$59,596
Forensics, Evidence and Investigation woeker looks into microscope
Forensics, Evidence and Investigation
annual salary range
$19,558-$51,828
Social and Human Service Assistants
Social and Human Service Assistants
annual salary range
$23,570-$37,850

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Do you...

  • Have excellent references
  • Want job security
  • Know what to do in an emergency
  • Possess strong interpersonal skills
  • Have an interest in laws, rules, and justice

Gain Some Experience

  • Volunteer at an organization for at-risk kids
  • Become certified in first aid & CPR
  • Attend fundraisers for local police and fire stations
  • Participate in drug & drunk driving prevention organizations
  • Participate in committees at school or in community organizations
  • Visit your local courthouse
  • Help keep people safe at recreational areas
  • Teach others how to be safe
ambulance blurred as it drives by
helicopter rescue on top of snowy mountain
fire fighter stands in front of burning building
community service volunteers planting in garden
park ranger holds binoculars
public service volunteer working with community youth

School

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Work

Career Interviews

Let’s find out what people working in the careers you want to explore have to say. Download the Career Interview worksheet (PDF).