Customs and Border Protection Officers → Detectives and Criminal Investigators
What it takes to move from customs and border protection officers into detectives and criminal investigators — the overlap, the gaps, and the pay change.
The transferable cut
Refit analysis ·10 of the top skills overlap between Customs and Border Protection Officers and Detectives and Criminal Investigators — Active Listening, Speaking, Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, so that experience transfers directly. The main gaps to close are few. Median pay moves from $76,290 to $93,580 (+23%).
Skills that transfer
You likely already have these from customs and border protection officers.
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Learning
- Writing
- Monitoring
- Learning Strategies
- Mathematics
- Science
Gaps to close
What detectives and criminal investigatorsasks for that you'll need to build.
- No major missing skills among the top set.
Pay change
Customs and Border Protection Officers
$76,290
Detectives and Criminal Investigators
$93,580
Re-angle your Customs and Border Protection Officers experience toward Detectives and Criminal Investigators
Honest tailoring
See how your resume lines up with Detectives and Criminal Investigators
Refit re-angles your real experience toward this role using the skills above — and never invents skills you don't have. A no-fabrication gate checks every change before you see it.
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