WEBVTT 00:00.540 --> 00:03.750 In this video we're going to talk about how to get work doing Osint. 00:04.830 --> 00:10.170 Now there's a lot of different places we can go to look for a job doing open source intelligence. 00:10.170 --> 00:14.250 One place is LinkedIn and you can find it at linked. 00:15.400 --> 00:16.780 I encom. 00:16.780 --> 00:22.300 Now, if you're not familiar with it, it's essentially a giant online resume. 00:22.330 --> 00:30.730 You fill out a profile, you can put down your education, your job history, different skills and whatnot. 00:31.650 --> 00:35.310 And it's filled a lot of other professional people from around the world. 00:35.790 --> 00:43.080 And you can look up things for Osint, look for jobs, fill a post up that you're looking for a job 00:43.080 --> 00:49.260 in open source intelligence or other fields that will basically use Osint. 00:49.590 --> 00:51.060 And it's free to join. 00:51.060 --> 00:55.320 There is a premium one that you get a little bit more features, but for the most part you can get away 00:55.320 --> 00:56.370 with the free one. 00:56.910 --> 00:59.430 And again, that's LinkedIn.com. 01:00.660 --> 01:06.150 Another place you could check out and I do encourage you to check out is osmosis. 01:07.140 --> 01:10.770 And that's an association for Osint professionals. 01:10.860 --> 01:15.270 Now, as the name implies, it is for Osint professionals and it's free to join. 01:15.420 --> 01:17.100 And it's an interesting group. 01:17.130 --> 01:20.550 Again, it's it's a group of open ocean professionals. 01:20.550 --> 01:21.450 You could. 01:22.430 --> 01:25.460 Join for free talk in the forums. 01:25.460 --> 01:29.750 You could, uh, hook up with other ozian professionals. 01:29.750 --> 01:32.750 You could look for different jobs on there. 01:32.750 --> 01:34.370 There's different groups you can join. 01:34.370 --> 01:37.640 There's study guides, there's Osint tools, white papers. 01:38.260 --> 01:39.370 And so forth. 01:39.370 --> 01:43.000 And they also do offer a certification I have. 01:43.000 --> 01:44.170 I haven't taken it yet. 01:44.170 --> 01:46.420 I may I may take it in the future though. 01:46.420 --> 01:47.830 It does look interesting. 01:48.280 --> 01:52.420 But again, this is a great place that is Osint specific. 01:52.420 --> 01:55.360 It's it's filled with Osint professionals. 01:55.360 --> 02:02.290 And again, you could you could do some networking in here and also gather, uh, check their job board 02:02.290 --> 02:05.680 and check their, their different forms in that. 02:07.940 --> 02:09.740 Now another place you could check out. 02:09.740 --> 02:12.410 And this is I'm going to admit, this is somewhat new to me. 02:12.410 --> 02:15.740 I haven't really checked out Fiverr, um, until recently. 02:16.220 --> 02:18.800 I've heard about it, but I haven't really looked at it. 02:19.160 --> 02:24.740 Uh, Fiverr at five or comm five e RR comm. 02:25.100 --> 02:30.860 And if you type in Osint, uh, there was a surprising number of Osint ads in here. 02:31.070 --> 02:37.820 Now, essentially what you do is you put yourself up there and you put a pay range in there, and you 02:37.820 --> 02:44.510 could do jobs for that particular pay range, and you can put down what your what you're going to do, 02:44.510 --> 02:47.990 what you're willing to do, how much it's going to cost and so forth. 02:48.320 --> 02:50.600 And again, that's at fiverr.com. 02:52.030 --> 02:56.890 Now, I talked about certification before, but just to kind of reiterate. 02:57.480 --> 02:59.760 Which certification should you get? 02:59.760 --> 03:02.250 Or should you even bother getting a certification? 03:02.280 --> 03:09.690 Certification really is going to depend on you and your potential employer, so certain employers may 03:09.690 --> 03:11.820 value different certifications differently. 03:11.820 --> 03:14.910 Some employers really don't care what certification you get. 03:15.060 --> 03:22.680 Certain employers want specific certifications, but I always advise that to check ahead of time. 03:22.680 --> 03:28.560 If you're looking at a particular employer to see what they're actually looking for. 03:28.560 --> 03:36.060 Now, if you have existing certifications that they don't have listed or that they don't know about, 03:36.060 --> 03:37.560 they it's totally new to them. 03:37.560 --> 03:39.810 They never heard of that particular certification. 03:40.380 --> 03:47.040 I'd advised you to let kind of frame to them why that certification is valuable, why you took it. 03:47.640 --> 03:53.400 Why you went out and put that work in and spent that money, gained that particular certification, 03:53.400 --> 03:58.320 and how it's going to benefit them for hiring you, having that certification. 03:59.720 --> 04:03.680 And other questions you may want to ask potential employers. 04:03.680 --> 04:08.090 This came up recently a it's a. 04:09.030 --> 04:15.930 I'm going to say it's an ad firm, contacted me about a potential job, and I had some questions for 04:15.930 --> 04:18.990 it because I didn't recognize this particular firm. 04:18.990 --> 04:21.060 And I just want to get some more information. 04:21.060 --> 04:25.380 So these are some questions you may want to ask a potential employer. 04:25.650 --> 04:28.140 And this is in no particular order. 04:28.590 --> 04:32.460 Um, what what work do you do they specifically want. 04:32.460 --> 04:33.720 What does it entail? 04:33.720 --> 04:39.930 How much responsibility slash liability do you have with information that you present now? 04:39.930 --> 04:46.170 Personally, I like to take the information and I give it a score on how reliable it's it may be whether 04:46.170 --> 04:49.020 it it's a potential rumor. 04:49.020 --> 04:53.580 It's there's a lot of resources that to back up that particular information. 04:53.580 --> 04:58.290 I found along with linking the information to where I found it, that's always going to be important 04:58.290 --> 05:01.620 to link that information to how you found it. 05:01.980 --> 05:06.540 Um, is my identity concealed and if so, how and from who? 05:07.080 --> 05:13.710 They may conceal my identity from the the person that that's asking for the investigation. 05:13.710 --> 05:18.750 However, they may give up my information if law enforcement or a legal request comes in. 05:19.050 --> 05:24.030 Not not that it would may stop me from taking that particular job, but I do. 05:24.030 --> 05:27.780 I would like to know how my identity is handled. 05:29.520 --> 05:31.350 Uh, how was payment structure? 05:31.350 --> 05:32.880 How are you going to get paid? 05:32.880 --> 05:34.170 How are taxes? 05:34.170 --> 05:36.690 How are the payments going to be made? 05:37.110 --> 05:37.350 Um. 05:38.490 --> 05:39.870 Our taxes handled. 05:39.870 --> 05:41.160 Taxes are going to be a big thing. 05:41.160 --> 05:46.860 Depending on how your contracted or how you're hired, it's going to depend on how taxes are handled. 05:47.040 --> 05:48.930 Some taxes are pretty standard. 05:48.930 --> 05:50.190 Other taxes. 05:50.340 --> 05:55.860 I've gotten taxes from Hong Kong, which is a little bit different thing. 05:55.860 --> 05:59.970 If you're getting money from different countries, taxes work a little differently. 05:59.970 --> 06:06.120 So you do want to make sure that you understand how you're going to get paid and how that works, because 06:06.120 --> 06:11.340 the last thing you want to do is get into trouble with the tax organization. 06:12.420 --> 06:14.400 Uh, are are they insured? 06:14.400 --> 06:17.160 And if so, what are they cover for? 06:17.160 --> 06:18.600 And does it cover me? 06:18.720 --> 06:21.720 And if it covers me, what does it cover exactly? 06:22.320 --> 06:26.490 Uh, do you have a typical contract details or a sample contract I can look at? 06:27.120 --> 06:29.310 How do you handle verification information? 06:29.310 --> 06:30.690 I present you? 06:30.690 --> 06:33.240 Is there NDA non-disclosure agreement? 06:33.240 --> 06:35.250 I need to sign it. 06:35.370 --> 06:37.320 If so, what are the details? 06:37.320 --> 06:46.710 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, 06:46.980 --> 06:52.830 is there a typical time frame that you need the work to be done within, and if so, what is it? 06:53.660 --> 06:56.450 Do you need any additional information about me? 06:57.200 --> 06:59.570 Will I know who I'm working for? 06:59.990 --> 07:05.960 Uh, certain situations, if you're doing Osint investigations, it's going to most likely deal with 07:05.960 --> 07:06.770 very. 07:07.760 --> 07:09.350 Sensitive information. 07:09.350 --> 07:11.870 And personally, I'd like to know. 07:13.440 --> 07:16.830 Whose requests and affirmation who am I actually doing this work for? 07:16.860 --> 07:20.100 If there's a company that's hiring me to get information. 07:20.990 --> 07:23.030 Who am I ultimately working for? 07:23.060 --> 07:30.110 I like to know that information and will I know how that information is going to be used. 07:30.110 --> 07:31.460 So if. 07:32.130 --> 07:33.540 I don't know who I'm working for. 07:33.570 --> 07:35.610 I don't know how that information is being used. 07:35.640 --> 07:41.610 I'm personally probably not going to take that job because I don't want this turn into some, uh, something 07:41.610 --> 07:43.680 about revenge against someone else. 07:43.680 --> 07:53.340 I don't want this being used improperly to, say, stalk someone, for example, or to, uh, as a political 07:53.340 --> 07:59.280 smear campaign or something, or disinformation campaign for politicians, for example, things like 07:59.280 --> 07:59.850 that. 08:00.490 --> 08:06.010 And again, these things are going to kind of fall under what what your own guidelines are. 08:06.900 --> 08:09.870 So this is about getting Osint jobs. 08:09.990 --> 08:12.780 Thank you for watching and hope to see you in the next video.