Post fit
A license says you can guard. A badge says you fit the post.Post badges
A school front desk and a warehouse gate take the same license and completely different people. Eight free, ten-minute assessments tell them apart; guards earn a badge once and carry it everywhere.
School-ready
High public contactElementary through high school campuses: front-entrance control, hallway presence, dismissal, and working alongside teachers and administrators.
- Visitor and pickup verification when a student's safety is on the line
- Mandated-reporter duties and student privacy (FERPA)
- Lockdown, evacuation, and alarm response with children present
- De-escalating students without treating them like adults
Healthcare-ready
High public contactEmergency departments, inpatient units, behavioral health, and clinics: patients in crisis, worried families, and clinical staff who need a steady partner.
- Patient privacy (HIPAA) at the desk and in the hallway
- Early de-escalation with agitated patients and visitors
- Restraint limits: what security may and may not do
- Infection control, sharps, and code responses
Retail-ready
High public contactStorefronts, malls, and late-night retail: shoplifting, robbery response, abusive customers, and the legal limits of detaining anyone.
- Observe-and-report versus lawful merchant detention
- Robbery response: comply, observe, report
- Behavior-based observation, never appearance-based
- Non-pursuit policy and customer de-escalation
Corporate-ready
Some public contactLobbies, campuses, and headquarters: badge and visitor control, tailgating, terminations, suspicious mail, and a polished front-desk presence.
- Access control and tailgating without offending employees
- Life-safety egress rules that override convenience
- Termination stand-by and insider-threat reporting
- Suspicious package recognition
Residential-ready
Some public contactApartment communities, HOAs, and gated properties: residents, guests, disputes, trespass, and long stretches of solo patrol.
- Fair housing: enforcing rules the same way for everyone
- What a guard may never do in a landlord-tenant dispute
- Domestic disturbances and protection orders
- Trespass, lockouts, and fire-lane enforcement
Event-ready
High public contactConcerts, stadiums, festivals, and conferences: bag checks, crowd density, alcohol, ejections, and keeping every exit clear.
- Consent-based screening and entry refusal
- Crowd-density warning signs and when to stop the show
- Alcohol service rules and intoxicated patrons
- Unattended items, barriers, and egress
Industrial-ready
Low public contactPlants, warehouses, yards, and job sites: gate control, trucks and paperwork, hazardous materials, PPE zones, and lockout tags.
- Gate and shipment verification
- PPE zones and equipment you never touch
- Hazmat placards, spills, and evacuation
- Lockout/tagout and suspicious packages
Installation-ready
Some public contactMilitary installations, federal buildings, courthouses, and utilities: credential verification, escorts, vehicle inspections, and controlled information.
- Credential verification that rank and urgency cannot waive
- Escort and visitor rules, vehicle inspections
- Prohibited items and photography on federal property
- Handling controlled information you were never meant to see
How a badge works
- Ten scenario questions drawn from the post type, what you would actually do at that desk, gate, or floor. Every question is original and cites a primary source (state statute, federal guidance, or an industry standard).
- Scored on the server. Correct answers never reach the browser, so the badge means what it says.
- 80% passes. Miss it and you see which scenarios to study, then retry after 24 hours.
- Badges show on your public profile and in the directory filter, and jobs that require one open up the moment you earn it.
- A badge is valid for two years. Pass a retake any time to reset the clock; a failed retake never removes a badge you hold. Two years matches most state license cycles, and it means the questions you passed are the ones a post uses today.
Work style is separate, and yours
Alongside badges, guards can fill in a short work-style inventory, how you handle confrontation, how much public contact you want, how you like a shift structured. It ranks which posts fit you and, only if you turn sharing on, gives a company a conversation starter. It is self-reported, never a pass/fail, and never used to gate an application. It is not a personality or aptitude test.
Ready?
Guards: earn badges free from your dashboard. Companies: pick a post type when you post a job and, for posts that need it, require the badge.