In this video we're going to talk about how to get work doing Osint.
Now there's a lot of different places we can go to look for a job doing open source intelligence.
One place is LinkedIn and you can find it at linked.
I encom.
Now, if you're not familiar with it, it's essentially a giant online resume.
You fill out a profile, you can put down your education, your job history, different skills and whatnot.
And it's filled a lot of other professional people from around the world.
And you can look up things for Osint, look for jobs, fill a post up that you're looking for a job
in open source intelligence or other fields that will basically use Osint.
And it's free to join.
There is a premium one that you get a little bit more features, but for the most part you can get away
with the free one.
And again, that's LinkedIn.com.
Another place you could check out and I do encourage you to check out is osmosis.
And that's an association for Osint professionals.
Now, as the name implies, it is for Osint professionals and it's free to join.
And it's an interesting group.
Again, it's it's a group of open ocean professionals.
You could.
Join for free talk in the forums.
You could, uh, hook up with other ozian professionals.
You could look for different jobs on there.
There's different groups you can join.
There's study guides, there's Osint tools, white papers.
And so forth.
And they also do offer a certification I have.
I haven't taken it yet.
I may I may take it in the future though.
It does look interesting.
But again, this is a great place that is Osint specific.
It's it's filled with Osint professionals.
And again, you could you could do some networking in here and also gather, uh, check their job board
and check their, their different forms in that.
Now another place you could check out.
And this is I'm going to admit, this is somewhat new to me.
I haven't really checked out Fiverr, um, until recently.
I've heard about it, but I haven't really looked at it.
Uh, Fiverr at five or comm five e RR comm.
And if you type in Osint, uh, there was a surprising number of Osint ads in here.
Now, essentially what you do is you put yourself up there and you put a pay range in there, and you
could do jobs for that particular pay range, and you can put down what your what you're going to do,
what you're willing to do, how much it's going to cost and so forth.
And again, that's at fiverr.com.
Now, I talked about certification before, but just to kind of reiterate.
Which certification should you get?
Or should you even bother getting a certification?
Certification really is going to depend on you and your potential employer, so certain employers may
value different certifications differently.
Some employers really don't care what certification you get.
Certain employers want specific certifications, but I always advise that to check ahead of time.
If you're looking at a particular employer to see what they're actually looking for.
Now, if you have existing certifications that they don't have listed or that they don't know about,
they it's totally new to them.
They never heard of that particular certification.
I'd advised you to let kind of frame to them why that certification is valuable, why you took it.
Why you went out and put that work in and spent that money, gained that particular certification,
and how it's going to benefit them for hiring you, having that certification.
And other questions you may want to ask potential employers.
This came up recently a it's a.
I'm going to say it's an ad firm, contacted me about a potential job, and I had some questions for
it because I didn't recognize this particular firm.
And I just want to get some more information.
So these are some questions you may want to ask a potential employer.
And this is in no particular order.
Um, what what work do you do they specifically want.
What does it entail?
How much responsibility slash liability do you have with information that you present now?
Personally, I like to take the information and I give it a score on how reliable it's it may be whether
it it's a potential rumor.
It's there's a lot of resources that to back up that particular information.
I found along with linking the information to where I found it, that's always going to be important
to link that information to how you found it.
Um, is my identity concealed and if so, how and from who?
They may conceal my identity from the the person that that's asking for the investigation.
However, they may give up my information if law enforcement or a legal request comes in.
Not not that it would may stop me from taking that particular job, but I do.
I would like to know how my identity is handled.
Uh, how was payment structure?
How are you going to get paid?
How are taxes?
How are the payments going to be made?
Um.
Our taxes handled.
Taxes are going to be a big thing.
Depending on how your contracted or how you're hired, it's going to depend on how taxes are handled.
Some taxes are pretty standard.
Other taxes.
I've gotten taxes from Hong Kong, which is a little bit different thing.
If you're getting money from different countries, taxes work a little differently.
So you do want to make sure that you understand how you're going to get paid and how that works, because
the last thing you want to do is get into trouble with the tax organization.
Uh, are are they insured?
And if so, what are they cover for?
And does it cover me?
And if it covers me, what does it cover exactly?
Uh, do you have a typical contract details or a sample contract I can look at?
How do you handle verification information?
I present you?
Is there NDA non-disclosure agreement?
I need to sign it.
If so, what are the details?
So if I work for them, I sign this thing and I, I do work what can I can I and and can I tell people,
is there a typical time frame that you need the work to be done within, and if so, what is it?
Do you need any additional information about me?
Will I know who I'm working for?
Uh, certain situations, if you're doing Osint investigations, it's going to most likely deal with
very.
Sensitive information.
And personally, I'd like to know.
Whose requests and affirmation who am I actually doing this work for?
If there's a company that's hiring me to get information.
Who am I ultimately working for?
I like to know that information and will I know how that information is going to be used.
So if.
I don't know who I'm working for.
I don't know how that information is being used.
I'm personally probably not going to take that job because I don't want this turn into some, uh, something
about revenge against someone else.
I don't want this being used improperly to, say, stalk someone, for example, or to, uh, as a political
smear campaign or something, or disinformation campaign for politicians, for example, things like
that.
And again, these things are going to kind of fall under what what your own guidelines are.
So this is about getting Osint jobs.
Thank you for watching and hope to see you in the next video.