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10/14/03
 Have
a proficiency in Albanian? How about Vietnamese? Or any number
of languages in between? Have we got a job for you.
Director
Mueller is personally appealing to U.S. citizens with language
skills to apply for a linguist position in the FBI on a contract
basis. It's a fascinating job, and would give you a chance
to make a difference in criminal investigations and in protecting
the country against terrorists and spies.
FBI language
specialists, for example, were crucial in the UNABOM case,
translating Ted Kaczinski's journal of his bomb-making processes
from his self-taught Spanish. To the 9/11 terrorist investigation,
of course. To international organized crime cases. To every
FBI case that involves multiple languages... and that's a
lot of them.
Here's
how the FBI Director puts it: "The FBI needs to have
linguists who not only speak the language, but also understand
the culture, and the country. The translator also has to be
able to pick up subtleties that would assist investigators."
What
languages specifically?
Albanian,
Amharic, Arabic, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese (All Dialects),
French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish,
Malay, Malayalam, Pashto, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Swahili,
Tajik, Thai, Tamil, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Uigur, Urdu,
Uzbek, and Vietnamese. Other languages may be posted on the
FBI job site on an ad hoc basis.
What
are the job requirements?
You must
be a U.S. citizen... be proficient in both English and at
least one of the above languages... and pass all the screening
tests for employment. These include language testing, a polygraph
examination, and a comprehensive background investigation.
Once approved, you would be contracted on an hourly basis
and would work on FBI premises -- including foreign travel,
as required.
What
are you waiting for?
Apply now at www.fbijobs.com
and submit your application into the Foreign Language Skills
Registry for future consideration. It's a great job -- why
not today?
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