A top FBI agent in DFW is looking to recruit locals

TEXAS, USA — One of the top FBI Agents in North Texas is on a mission to assist change the face of his group. 

He says has an awesome profession and hopes others consider making the same move he did regardless of having no legislation enforcement background in any way.

Supervisory Special Agent Clyde Ellis entered the FBI at a time when there weren’t many individuals who appeared like him.

“I am an African American and I am an FBI Agent. But I am an African American first,” Clyde Ellis.

Ellis, affectionately often known as ‘J-R’, made his large, surprising profession change years in the past and now he hopes to get others to comply with swimsuit.  It all began with one of many deadliest acts on American soil.  After the 9/11 tragedy in 2001, J-R paid shut consideration to the FBI’s response.

“They were front and center working the investigation,” stated J-R, “I saw them on the news a lot. I would say that was the first time that the FBI really caught my attention.”

J-R ultimately attended an FBI recruitment truthful, very similar to the one he is about to maintain in Dallas-Fort Worth.  That’s the place the Oklahoma native acquired all his questions answered in regards to the authorities company.  It’s additionally the place, a lot to his shock, he was bitten by the FBI bug.

“Here I am now, coming up on 16 years in the bureau,” he stated.

As one of many bureau’s top brokers, he hopes to recruit a various group of individuals like schoolteachers in the classroom, nurses and medical employees from hospitals, and people with completely different backgrounds identical to his.

“My background is IT,” stated Ellis, “I’m a dad, I have children, I go to football games, I go to basketball games, so you do have that healthy balance of the demands of the job.”

The fundamental necessities to land an FBI job embrace being a U-S Citizen between the ages of 23 and 36 years outdated and having a bachelor’s diploma with 2 years of labor expertise. Of course, the bodily health coaching is a part of the 20 weeks on the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. 

J-R has some severe targets for the number of folks he hopes will attend the FBI’s July 28 variety recruitment truthful.  He’s inviting individuals who need to be potential FBI Agents to full the appliance by the July twenty fifth deadline on Monday.  

After candidates move the screening course of, the recruiters will share the placement of the job truthful. That’s the place folks can do what he did nearly 20 years in the past and get their questions answered in regards to the lifetime of an FBI Agent. That contains these questions in regards to the myths of working as an agent. 

J-R additionally shared who he hopes to see strolling via the door, and why it is essential everybody is welcomed on the FBI, no matter race, background, ethnicity, gender, faith and all these issues that make America distinctive.

“We should have people of all different nationalities to be part of this organization so we can better represent the communities that we serve every day,” stated Ellis.

Since the Diversity Agent Recruitment Event is Thursday, July 28, all potential candidates should apply by Monday, July 25 at www.fbijobs.gov.  Applicants will obtain particulars on the placement after they’re screened. Click here for the direct utility link.

The FBI chief burdened that there are what he calls ‘comfortable expertise’ folks have from completely different professions which might be important to the way forward for the federal government company.  As a Supervisory Special Agent who has labored and earned his approach up the ranks in the FBI, J-R serves for example for others in a authorities company that he says now presents equal alternative for all.