About the Book
Private Investigation is a difficult, yet exciting career. By conducting your own "Career Investigation", you have decided to examine the feasibility of how you can become a private investigator in a 6 billion dollar industry.
How To Become A Professional Private Investigator will provide you with the information necessary to evaluate your investigative career possibilities.
If you answer "Yes" to even one of the following questions, then you should seriously consider exploring a career in the exciting field of private investigation and related investigative occupational opportunities:
Are you interested in private investigation as a potential life long career? Do you want to learn how to become a professional private investigator? Do you want to learn how to make a significant impact in an exciting, rewarding, and fast paced service industry that currently yields approximately six billion dollars in annual sales? Do you want to help other people by solving complex problems that others are unable to unravel? How would you like to wake up every morning and be able to say "I can't wait to get to work"? Where do you begin? How can you obtain the information necessary to determine how to become a private investigator in a six billion dollar industry?
Look no further than How To Become A Professional Private Investigator! We've done the work for you. We've done the research. We have all the information you'll need to know to make a career choice to become a successful, professional private investigator.
About the Author
John M. Lajoie is known throughout the country for his skill and experience as a private investigator, and for his dedication to the field of professional private investigation. Lajoie has turned the one-man operation he began in 1989 into one of the largest investigative firms in central
Massachusetts
. John is a Certified Legal Investigator, a Certified Criminal Defense Investigator, a Certified International Investigator, and a Board Certified Professional Investigator. His case experience has ranged from high-profile homicides to simple auto accidents, and his client base from the rich and famous to the homeless and indigent. He is a member of many national and international professional investigator organizations, and is frequently recognized by these groups for his outstanding work and contributions to the investigative profession and the community. Lajoie was born and raised in
Worcester
,
Massachusetts
and now lives in
Sterling
with his wife, Susan, and three children.
Read the Reviews
Book Review
By Kitty Hailey, CLI, CFE
How To Become A Professional Private Investigator
By John M. Lajoie, CLI, CII
I always enjoy reading the works of NALI members. There is an immediate feeling of pride that I am opening the pages of a book authored by a professional colleague, friend and NALI Board Member. I approached John M. Lajoie
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s new publication with the same interest and was not disappointed. It is a book sold only over the Internet, via his website, www.PrivateInvestigator.com. It does not pander to it
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s audience by offering romantic images or unrealistic promises about our profession. Instead, it offers intelligent, no-nonsense information about this industry as a potential vocation to those who seriously are considering the field of investigation as a life
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s work.
Take for example, his definition of an investigator as
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an individual that studies, learns, retains, and applies the art and science of investigation.
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He does not promise pipe dreams fulfilled or instant wealth. He emphasizes the education and preparation of hard working, self motivated, patient individuals as the backbone of a good investigator. Integrity, honesty, and a sincere concern with finding the truth echo through the pages.
John then proceeds to discuss personal assessment, self evaluation and honesty before even embarking on investigation as a career. He provides information about the various types of investigative services and professional organizations that assist and educate the working investigator. I was most pleased with the exceptionally thorough compilation of individual States laws and requirements for licensing.
I regularly receive inquiries from
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wannabe
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investigators. College students and persons dissatisfied with their current employment call frequently to ask how they can enter this field, that they see as more thrilling and fulfilling than anything else they can imagine. I used to take hours of time explaining the trials and tribulations, talking straight talk and seriously promoting the proper education and apprenticeship. Now I simply refer them all to John Lajoie's website and his publication. He says it all and does it extremely well.
Book Review
By Julius Bombet, CLI, CFE, LCI, CII
It's finally here, a CLEAR & CONCISE book on the private investigator industry, written by one of America
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s premier investigators, John M. Lajoie, CLI, CII. The book, entitled "How To Become A Professional Private Investigator", is a must read for anyone that is considering a career in the private investigative field.
In the pages that follow, you will find an honest and factual appraisal of exactly what it is and what it means to be a private investigator in today
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s world, and what it takes and where to go to get a PI license. Chapters include Definition & Skills; Self Assessment; Types of Private Investigators and Job Functions; Schools & Training; PI Licensing; Laws and Other Requirements; Working Conditions, Earnings, Outlook; Employment & Related Occupations; Associations; and Words of Wisdom.
Lajoie, an experienced and successful investigator, does not bite his tongue and, in his matter of fact style, really tells it like it is. When you finish reading and reviewing the material, you will have little doubt if the private investigative profession is your future.
Lajoie is a self-made professional that worked his way up the ladder from a corporate security officer to the owner of a highly successful, full service private investigation agency, Lajoie Investigations, Inc. He is the holder of the prestigious Certified Legal Investigator© designation offered by the National Association of Legal Investigators, Inc. as well as a Certified International Investigator. His experience includes over 16 years in the investigation industry. Lajoie is an accomplished author and received a national publisher
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s award in 1997 for his outstanding article Homicide Se Defendendo, which was published both nationally and internationally.
Mr. Lajoie was born, raised, and has lived in Worcester, Massachusetts most of his life. After a distinguished military career, he graduated Summa Cum Laude from Worcester State College. While in college, Lajoie entered the investigation industry; a decision made without the benefit of having a book like this one at his fingertips.
Lajoie
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s tireless efforts on behalf of the private investigation industry include membership and offices in several state and national associations and he is the Conference Chairman and Coordinator of the annual Northeast Super Conference which is sponsored by 12 state and national PI associations.
If you are an aspiring investigator or someone considering the profession, your investment in Lajoie
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s book is a worthy one that will no doubt save you time, money, and distress assisting you make the most important decision of your life.
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