What is the background investigation process?
Do all applicants go through a polygraph test and drug test? Candidates who accept a conditional job offer will need to get a Top Secret-SCI security clearance from the FBI prior to starting work as an Intelligence Analyst. This involves a personnel security interview (PSI), polygraph examination, and urinalysis drug test. If you pass these screening elements, we will put you into the background investigation process. We require a PSI for all FBI applicants. This interview includes questions about foreign travel and contacts, drug usage, status of financial obligations, and other security issues. Information that you provide on your application and during your interview may be verified through the mandatory polygraph examination that we give to applicants who successfully complete the PSI. We will notify you of the date, time and location of the polygraph. The polygraph examination focuses on national security and counterintelligence issues and the accuracy and completeness of the info
