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Job Titles

Job titles can be range from meaningful to frustrating. They can tell us a lot or very little, and sometimes almost nothing at all about a role. They can provide a sense of importance, create hierarchy, and as a way to differentiate between people within the same role. This is true of almost any industry, and the security & intelligence sector is no different. Having seen hundreds of positions at different companies, it doesn't always make the process of understanding what you're signing up to easier. I once worked for a company where I was given the title of ‘Intelligence Analyst’. I worked with a number of others in the same role, and we shared the same work and responsibilities, but others were given the title ‘Investigations Analyst’. While I can’t know for sure, I am confident that this was the manager’s way of increasing my interest during the hiring process to better match my expectations and ideals for joining the company, with me aiming to ‘break into’ the intelligence industry at the time. Similarly, I’ve worked as a country ‘Threat Analyst’, however, the majority of ‘Threat Analyst’ positions fall within a cyber security role and have little to do with non-cyber roles. Context can go a long way in determining roles - is it an intelligence company, a technical organisation, or perhaps a large corporation that needs in house cyber security?

As you can see, all of this can make it very difficult to navigate when searching for roles, so to assist with searching, here are a list of common (and some less common) titles used within the industry:

Political Risk Analyst
Country Risk Analyst
Intelligence Analyst
Intelligence Operative
Due Diligence Researcher
Investigator
Risk Analyst
Threat Analyst
Security Analyst

The word "Analyst" can also be replaced with "consultant", "researcher". With almost all of these, you can prefix with Junior, Associate, Senior etc if there is a more defined hierarchy at the organisation. The "Associate" role has different levels within different companies. To one organisation it might be equivalent to a junior/entry level role, and to another a promotion after some years of service.