10 INCREDIBLE AIR FORCE JOBS + ASVAB MINIMUMS

hey guys and welcome back to the channel in this video we're going to be talking about the job selection process and also i'm going to give you guys 10 incredible jobs that are in the air force just to give you guys a gauge of what are some of the jobs you guys can get in the air force and maybe a few of these jobs will make it on your list but first let's talk about the process of how to get a job in the air force as you already know the asvab qualifies you for all the jobs in the air force not when you take the asvab you get to pick from all the jobs but no the score you get on your asvab test will open up certain jobs to you your main asvab score called your armed forces qualification test score i know a lot of words but your afqt score which is the main asvab score that people talk about that gets you into a certain branch because you have to hit the minimum to get into that branch but then after you get in in regards to what jobs you're allowed to get there are these separate scores within the asvab test that they're the ones that gauge if you're allowed to work in certain jobs those four categories make up an acronym that spell out game because it's all a game but we have um general which is very broad then we have administration then we have jobs or sorry the test score composite thing that is the m which is mechanical and finally the e which is electrical or electronic yeah so it just makes up the word game and that's an easy way to remember these are the four scores under my main asvab score that help me get a job so within the greater air force uh i think it's both on the enlisted and officer side by the way but i know on the enlisted side they have broken all of their jobs into seven main categories so the seven categories of air force jobs include operations maintenance and logistics support medical and dental legal and chaplain finance and contracting and lastly special investigations operations is very broad but you can kind of think of it as a category where any air crew functions will probably fall there intelligence fields will fall under operations and just lots of things are just kind of thrown into that basket if it's helping the air force operate next we have maintenance and logistics which is pretty straightforward there are jobs that literally have logistics in the title maybe logistics management no idea but just know that's pretty straightforward feel free to google it and then also maintenance so aircraft maintenance we are in the air force so we do have uh planes and spaceships that need to be maintained for us to be able to do our job so that's very important and that is where those jobs are categorized next of course we have support which includes the personnel career field public affairs and also security forces which guard and protect all of our bases and keep both us and our families super safe continuing on we have medical and dental who needs explanation for what that job what that category of jobs includes no one after that we have uh legal and chaplain chaplain represents um our religious services for our airmen and so if you're attracted to working in that space and kind of advocating for spiritual wellness you'd want to work in the chaplain field of the air force continuing on we have finance and contracting which again pretty straightforward finance is how much money has an air force are we spending and should we be spending that much money and contracting is what companies are we negotiating with to buy a lot of things from them and that could be as simple as staplers like as an air force what company are we negotiating with to buy like 10 million staples for one year of work in the air force just for all of our bases across the world for all of our supportive offices we have to buy staples for our staplers and someone needs to negotiate the price down because we're buying a lot of them so maybe you want to bring the price down for us because we can always go to the next best offer and they probably will bring the price down because they want us to buy from them but that is an overview of what contracting is and the last category as you already heard is special investigations if there's some funny things going on in the air force like fraud counter intelligence operations meaning do we have spies in the air force are there people giving information about the air force to our adversaries our enemies they're the ones who are going to hunt you down and kick you out now before kicking you out you probably will have some legal action as well so hey paralegals like we talked about earlier they're going to be a part of this discussion too so you cannot do osi or the office of special investigations right when you join the air force but after your first let's say four year contract you are able to apply to the office of special investigations and kind of get to do that role if you would like and it makes for an incredible kind of experience if you then maybe want to transfer to the fbi on the civilian side so how do you create your specific top 10 list pretty much you just start digging on the internet you take the scores that you got you start comparing them to the minimum scores that is necessary for each of those jobs and you kind of create your dream sheet for your recruiter now some other things are also going to need to happen for some jobs the first one is the strength aptitude test sat pretty much it's not a big deal guys i mean it's a heavy deal let's see what i did there but it just means can you lift something that's kind of heavy repeatedly if that's a part of your job and so when you go to maps it kind of is pretty quick i don't know if it's supposed to be quick i hope it's supposed to be quick but you just the recruiter at maps will be like here's this thing that is made to be picked up and pushed on top of your head can you do it i think it's either it's somewhere between 40 to 70 pounds so just let's say it's 70 pounds so i feel like i didn't under undercut it okay so in your mind guys you need to ask yourself can you lift something that is 70 pounds over your head i'm not sure if it's the same weight requirement for both male and female i'm not sure but for now let's just say check to see if your job requires that and or just start practicing now just lifting something that is 70 pounds up from the ground safely and over your head um when you do this it'll be a part of a contraption so you can't like pull it toward you and drop it on you it's just pull up and then it stays within these vertical bars and then you push it up but just i've warned you i didn't find it very challenging and i don't really have any muscle so you should be fine but maybe go to the gym with mom dad friend and just see what 70 pounds feels like so once again you can qualify for any job you want uh also some jobs specifically um two that come to mind will need additional testing so the linguist career field if you're interested in being a linguist in your asvab score qualified you to be able to be a linguist you're going to have to take the defense language aptitude battery test that test is meant to see if you would be good at learning languages not do you know foreign languages it's a test designed to gauge will you be able to be taught a language in a kind of rapid paced environment and then the next test is the electric data processing test which i didn't have the opportunity to take this but i've only heard intimidating things and it's a test of about 128 questions that is meant to gauge will you be good at programming like are you a good candidate to go into our specific niche secret programming coding job sets and so i've heard it's very difficult but i've heard that the four categories of questions include something similar to the assembling objects test where based on these two images which image matches it but it's i think a lot harder then we have the algebra and math section which will get which again will be a higher level than you saw on the asvab next we have um like uh what's it called like analogies yeah analogies so a hand to a human is a blank to a dog which you would say a paw get it so that's an analogy and then the fourth category i'm not oh numbers logic and so the example given online that i saw was like it'll be blank like 1 3 5 7 blank what number comes next in this numbers logic puzzle the answer is nine because each number was increasing by two so that is the electrics nope already getting wrong electronic data processing tests or the edpt and it is one of the two tests that i'm familiar with or at least i've heard of that you can take after the asvab to again qualify you for additional jobs in the air force but you do need to both get a minimum score on the asvab and then speak with your recruiter and say hey i want to take these tests because i don't know if your recruiter's going to be on it so it's kind of important for you to do that and now let's list out 10 incredible air force jobs and also in this list i am going to include their air force specialty code just in case you would like to look up more information about the job and also the minimum composite score that is listed to get that job some jobs have two minimums but i picked one and that will be the one we discussed when discussing that job so first and foremost photojournalism the code is 3vox2 and the minimum in the general category or the general composite asvab is a 44. now photojournalism pretty much is taking pictures of both things happening in the air force day-to-day but also special ceremonies and when we have distinguished guests visiting any of our bases across the world next we have broadcast journalists very similar to photojournalists but of course you're in front of the camera you're speaking and you're telling both the air force and your civilian peers what we're up to and what's being accomplished by the air force that code is 3nox2 and it has a general composite minimum requirement of a 72. next we have weather weather is easy to understand of course you are a weather person a weatherman or a weather woman and you're not actually reporting the weather like a broadcast journalist but for weather but actually you are studying the weather more like a meteorologist and informing our air force units specifically the ones that fly and have to work and operate within the weather you're letting them know what's going to happen while they're in the air this department studies the weather you act as a meteor meteorologist for the air force and you of course inform any departments that need to know what's happening in the sky before you go into the sky and so the code for that job is one w0x1 and you need a mineral minimum general composite of 66. next we have administration administration is different than personnel which is what we will talk about next in that it is supporting i believe our higher-ups and so if anyone that's higher higher up in the air force needs their schedule managed needs their events prepared in advance needs to make sure needs to have just administrative support so any paperwork that they are handling their offices handling and or reports that they need to verify or review before sending it up the chain or down the chain they will be provided administrative support and so in that job you are working with some very important people and it's very detail-oriented and you learn a lot while on the job being around such influential leaders and so that jobs code is 3 f 5 x1 and its minimum is in the administrative composite score area and is a 47. next we do have the personnel job which is similar to administration in that you're handling paperwork and you're helping kind of the air force live and breathe making sure that it is able to keep moving in an organized manner but personnel instead of facing our management you face us you face your peers you help someone like me and of course all of my fellow wingmen who are um you could call entry level or just you know still climbing the ladder you help all of us manage our careers and also manage our training progressions and manage just any paperwork that needs to be affiliated with our file specifically when we're becoming an airman and when we're trying to separate from being an airmen when we need all of that paperwork in the right spot and organized so that we don't get stuck in in like i don't know limbo for like six months please don't let that happen so personnel very important and we definitely appreciate you and the code is 3sox1 and they have a minimum administration composite score of 41. that is five of the jobs let's do five more after that we have operations intelligence which falls under the intelligence community umbrella or the intelligence arm of the air force and this job focuses on analyzing intelligence information gathered from a variety of sources and trying to take that information analyzing it and trying to put it together in a report so that not only do you just have information but now you have analysis and intelligence in which because of this we believe this will happen or looking at all of this let's connect it to what we got a year ago and how does that create a picture that makes much more sense and how can we then make that picture quick and easy to understand for our higher ups to then make a decision with that information so operations intelligence does something like that i think and if that appeals to you you are going to need to look up the afsc code 1 no x1 and they have an administrative minimum score of a 64. next we have the cryptologic linguist which pretty much is a linguist and it's where you learn a different language and then you do the analytical thing or analytical aspect of the job which is similar to the operations intelligence analyst which we just talked about so you learn a language for anywhere whatever the minimum is to a year and a half and then you translate information and then you analyze it so let's talk about the minimums and the code the code for the cryptologic linguist role is 1 in 3 x1 and the minimum general category composite is a 72 next we have the premier band and as it sounds if you are excellent at playing music and you would be honored to be a part of a band that not only serves your country but also enriches the lives of airmen in their families around the world but also attends distinguished events and represents the air force all across the world then you may be perfect for the premier band and the code for that job is 3n2x1 and the minimum in the general composite area is a 24 but you need to be very very very good at your instrument and maybe even at singing because i do think they also have vocalists next we have the oof seer job which is where you teach people how to survive evade resist and escape sear seer professionals in the air force learn all of these incredible survival skills so that they can provide let's say two week to two month courses to different individuals who are going to be working in these situations and or their job puts them at risk to fall into this situation and sometimes i literally mean fall because if your plane goes down and you work on a plane and it goes down in an enemy country and you survive you might need to know how to hide out strategically for a while until you can hopefully find a way to get saved if that makes sense so if you like being outdoors and camping and you like teaching or informing others on how to do those things then this would be the perfect job for you and the code is one t o x one and you do need a general composite minimum of a fifty-five but not least this is our 10th job and it is somewhy one of the most talked about jobs in the air force by that i mean on youtube there's lots of chat about this job um on online and on like reddit in all of the blogs people love talking about this job and even at basic for anyone who goes in open contracts everyone's like i just wanna be up the job is loadmaster it's very popular it's a very very popular job and i believe it's because you get to travel so much mind-blowing right so a load master is a person who is trained to travel with any plane that has cargo and you're the one responsible responsible for making sure that the cargo is placed in the proper place on the plane preferably in the center so that it is balanced because if it's not balanced the plane can go down the load master manages where everything's sorry where everything is going and of course the weight of all of these different payloads or pallets or pieces of cargo you know all of the weights you have people at any air force base assisting put them on putting all these things on the plane of course you're not lifting things yourself and of course we do own very heavy duty uh hardware uh or trucks or things of that nature to assist in the job but the point is that you're responsible for making sure the cargo gets on the plane properly to allow a safe flight you do get to travel the world so a lot of people preferences jobs the code for this job is one a2 x1 and the minimum is a general composite of 57. those are the 10 jobs those are the codes and those are the minimum composite scores that you will need to qualify to rank that job on your preference list i'm very happy that you will be creating your list soon and i do hope that you get your number one choice but that leads me to kind of the last point of this video first no job is guaranteed so understand that you need to be flexible especially with the air force where the the the cue or the line to get in is super long for some reason at all times so be flexible in what job you get don't say you only want one job but of course go in with a preference and say i would prefer this job than this than this but be flexible next any listed job on your preference sheet must be accepted contractually or at least that's the rumor but i think i'm right but i'm going to say it's a rumor just to save my own but that means even if you put a job that you really don't want as number 10 and you could have put a job that you'd be open like i guess i'd be fine working with it let's say you do your top five and then for your last five instead of choosing jobs that you're like i guess i'd be fine with that instead you just put on random jobs just random codes just to be done with it and then your recruiter after two months says oh ex-job opened up you put it as number 10 and then you say to him i know but i just want to fill the slot i don't actually want that job well you put it on your list so you're taking the job you don't want that to happen now that doesn't sound quite right because i'm pretty sure you can always say no i'll wait for the next job that does sound very familiar like no i'd like to wait for something else but they're gonna make it seem like you can't do that okay so maybe you can say no i'd like to wait for a different job i'm a little confused on that but just know the expectation between you and your recruiter and the air force is if a job that you did put on the list comes avail becomes available you're leaving that is your ship out date that's a go signed sealed and delivered okay next when you do have a job provided to you and then you have a ship out date then you are in something called the delayed entry program and it can last anywhere from like three to eight months and that can be inclusive of you waiting to even get a job but also sometimes after you get a job the ship out date is still in like two to three months so understand it's a long process but it is entirely worth it in my opinion because i'm really really happy with the air force right now and i'm not even lying for the camera i'm really happy with the air force so be patient you got this second to last point is that the needs of the air force come first and you need to remember that when once again being flexible with what job you get and finally you may have noticed that i said a word or i said a phrase open contract earlier in the video should you go open contract when did it make maybe like an eight month wait to join the air force and actually ship off into something a lot quicker like maybe two to three months wow shouldn't i just go open contract so that i can leave quicker let's talk about that in the next video okay so that's all i have for this video i hope you enjoyed it i hope it was relatively useful if you did please subscribe the next video will be about should you go open contract or not and what i heard from my peers during basic about them going in open contract so wait and see for that subscribe if you'd like to get a notification for when i upload follow me on instagram if you'd like follow me on twitter if you want some inspiration bye

Channel: Michael A. Inman

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Keywords: ASVAB, Composite Score, Aptitude Test, Armed Forces Qualification Test, AFQT, Military, USAF, Office of Special Investigations, Strength Aptitude Test, Defense Language Aptitude Battery, DLAB, Electronic Data Processing Test, EDPT, Photojournalist, Broadcast Journalist, Weather Air Force, Administration, Personnel, Operations Intelligence, Cryptologic Linguist, Air Force Band, SERE, Air Force Loadmaster, Open Contract, 3V0X2, 3N0X2, 1W0X1, 3F5X1, 3S0X1, 1N0X1, 1N3X1, 3N2X1, 1T0X1, 1A2X1, 1A8X1, Soldier

Id: i9T5jIuTh8g

Length: 27min 25sec (1645 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 22 2020