Please read the below case study and answer the three questions. Your response should be at least two full pages in length. I will leave thumbs up.

1. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of the FBI using a mulitple hurdles approach to select special agents?

2. Would such a lengthy selection process appeal to you or turn you off to working at the FBI?

3. What might the FBI do to increase the chances that the applicants it wants to hire accept the job offers extended to them?

Hiring FBI Agents The FBI is one of the six bureaus of the U.S. Department The FBI has validated a series of assessment methods of Justice and the primary criminal investigative agency of for its special agent positions. To effectively utilize the asthe federal government. The special agents who work for the sessments, it uses a combination of multiple hurdles and cut FBI investigate people and organizations who violate federal scores to make its hiring decisions: statutes.Theseviolationscanberelatedtoorganizedcrime.1.OnlineApplicationfortheSperialAgratPosition:Apre- whito-ollar crime, flnancial crime, civil rights violations. liminary online application submitted through an FBI bank robberies, kidnapping, terrorism, foreign counterintel. field office is used to determine if applicants meet the ligence, and fugitive and drue trafieking matters. Special minimum qualifications of the position." including agents also work with other federal, state, and Jocal lew en-_ citizenship. age, education. work experience, and geoforcement agencies. The work performed by special agents Eraphic mobility." has a daily impoct on the country's security and the quality 2. Phase I Testing? Appljcants passing the second hurdle of life of all US, citirens." are given three teate: A biodata liventory, a logical dates whose scores exceed a predetermined cut score test, credit and arrest checks, interviews with asso- reasoning test. and a situational judgment test. Candiadvance to the next phase. ciates as well as personal and business references 3. Phase II Testing: Only the most competitive applicants. and past employers, and verification of educational based on the hiring needs of the FBI, are scheduled for achievements. Receiving an FBI top secret security Phase II Testing. Candidates' performance on a strucclearance is necessary to be eligible for a FBI special tured intervicw and a written exereise are compared agent position. to a cut score. If the applicant's score is at or higher than the cut score, he or she passes Phase II. Candithem that they passed and that they might also receive cial agent job functions. Candidates passing all phases a conditional letter of appointment, based on the deter- of the hiring process are scheduled for a special agent mination of their competitiveness and the needs of the class at the FBI Academy. FBI. The final offor of employment is contingent upon succesafully completing the physical fitness test, back- Questions ground investigation, and medical examination. 1. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of the 4. Plosical Fimess Teat: To pass the physical fitness test. FBI using a multiple hurdles approach to select special candidates must perform a maximum number of situps agents? in 1 minute, perform a timed 300 -meter sprint, perform 2. Would such a lengthy selection process appeal to you or a maximum number of pushups, and perform a timed turn you off to working at the FBI? 1 mile run. Candidates have a total of three opportuni. 3. What might the FBI do to increase the chances that the ties to pass the physical fitness test : applicants it wants to hire accept the job offers extended 5. FBI Background Jnvestigation Candidates receiving a conditional letter of employment are subjected to