Intelligence Analysts

Also called: Anti-Terrorist Analyst, CIA Agent (Central Intelligence Agency Agent), Counter Intelligence Agent, Counterintelligence Analyst, Crime Analyst

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Intelligence analysts gather, analyze, or evaluate information from a variety of sources, such as law enforcement databases, surveillance, intelligence networks, or geographic information systems. Use intelligence data to anticipate and prevent organized crime activities, such as terrorism.

Prepare comprehensive written reports, presentations, maps, or charts based on research, collection, and analysis of intelligence data.
Gather, analyze, correlate, or evaluate information from a variety of resources, such as law enforcement databases.
Validate known intelligence with data from other sources.
Analyze intelligence data to identify patterns and trends in criminal activity.
Conduct presentations of analytic findings.
Study activities relating to narcotics, money laundering, gangs, auto theft rings, terrorism, or other national security threats.
Gather intelligence information by field observation, confidential information sources, or public records.
Predict future gang, organized crime, or terrorist activity, using analyses of intelligence data.
Establish criminal profiles to aid in connecting criminal organizations with their members.
Link or chart suspects to criminal organizations or events to determine activities and interrelationships.
Evaluate records of communications, such as telephone calls, to plot activity and determine the size and location of criminal groups and members.
Collaborate with representatives from other government and intelligence organizations to share information or coordinate intelligence activities.
Design, use, or maintain databases and software applications, such as geographic information systems (GIS) mapping and artificial intelligence tools.
Study the assets of criminal suspects to determine the flow of money from or to targeted groups.
Interview, interrogate, or interact with witnesses or crime suspects to collect human intelligence.
Develop defense plans or tactics, using intelligence and other information.
Gather and evaluate information, using tools, such as aerial photographs, radar equipment, or sensitive radio equipment.
Operate cameras, radios, or other surveillance equipment to intercept communications or document activities.
Study communication code languages or foreign languages to translate intelligence.
Prepare plans to intercept foreign communications transmissions.

Work Context

Electronic Mail — 100% responded "Every day".
Telephone — 87% responded "Every day".
Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 96% responded "Every day".
Face-to-Face Discussions — 87% responded "Every day".
Spend Time Sitting — 74% responded "Continually or almost continually".
Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 70% responded "Extremely important".
Work With Work Group or Team — 57% responded "Extremely important".

Work Activities

Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.

Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.

Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.

Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.

Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.

Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.

Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.

Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.

Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.

Provide Consultation and Advice to Others — Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.

Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.

Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.

Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates — Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.

Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.

Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.

Coaching and Developing Others — Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.

Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.

Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.

Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.

Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

Detailed Work Activities

Examine records or other types of data to investigate criminal activities.
Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.
Use databases to locate investigation details or other information.
Record information about suspects or criminals.
Examine records or other types of data to investigate criminal activities.
Examine records or other types of data to investigate criminal activities.

English Language

Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Law and Government

Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

Public Safety and Security

Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

Computers and Electronics

Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Customer and Personal Service

Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Clerical

Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.

Education and Training

Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

Geography

Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

Administration and Management

Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

Mathematics

Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Psychology

Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

Communications and Media

Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

Sociology and Anthropology

Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins.

Reading Comprehension

Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

Active Listening

Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Writing

Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

Speaking

Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Written Comprehension

The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Written Expression

The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.

Inductive Reasoning

The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

Problem Sensitivity

The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

Oral Comprehension

The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Speech Recognition

The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

Information Ordering

The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Deductive Reasoning

The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Speech Clarity

The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Oral Expression

The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

Near Vision

The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

Flexibility of Closure

The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.

Fluency of Ideas

The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).

Category Flexibility

The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

Far Vision

The ability to see details at a distance.

Originality

The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.

Mathematical Reasoning

The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.

Selective Attention

The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.

They do well at jobs that need:

Achievement/Effort

Persistence

Initiative

Leadership

Cooperation

Concern for Others

Social Orientation

Self Control

You might use software like this on the job:

Data base management system software

Teradata Database
Relational database management software
Apache Hadoop
Apache Hive
Apache Pig

Word processing software

Microsoft Word

Data base user interface and query software

Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Access
Structured query language SQL
Amazon Web Services AWS software
Data entry software
Arrival Departure Information System ADIS
Automated Targeting System ATS
Bing
Refugee, Asylum and Parole System RAPS
Student and Exchange Visitor Information System SEVIS
Treasury Enforcement Communications System TECS
Thomson Reuters CLEAR
Computer Linked Application Information Management System CLAIMS
Telephone records software
Biometric Storage System BSS
IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook
Enforcement Case Tracking System ENFORCE
National Crime Information Center NCIC database
Consular Consolidated Database CCD
Palantir Intelligence
Google

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