Your New Jersey requirements
What you will learn
- Identify the authority for your location
- Explain your next training and application steps
- Know which details to confirm before starting work
Connect the shared foundations to your state entry route and official next steps.
Your shift starts here
What would you do next?
You have finished the online foundations lessons and found an employer in New Jersey. The employer asks when you can start.
Choose a response to see what happens.
Put it into practice
Verify your training next step
You are considering paying for a course. Build this verification plan in dependency order: define your target, establish the relevant requirements, check the exact course against them, then use the confirmed answers to decide.
Select the steps in the order you would take them.
- Choose step 1 below
Lesson notes & sources
Your state entry route
Contract security officers follow New Jersey's SORA certification process, including an application, fingerprint screening, and approved training.
NJSP materials specify a 24-hour initial course with a certified SORA instructor and an eight-hour renewal refresher. Confirm current deadlines in the application portal.
Start the official application
Use the NJSP SORA portal and retain your application details and personal email access.
Complete the required course
Confirm your instructor's current certification and book the initial SORA course.
Complete fingerprinting
Follow the instructions associated with your application and supply requested background documents.
Wait for approval
Retrieve your E-SORA identification after approval and have your employer verify it before assignment.
Confirm your situation
Current deadline and temporary-work details need direct NJSP confirmation; older FAQs remain online.
General career preparation supplements the required SORA course.
Prepare for your assessment route
New Jersey’s SORA route includes an approved 24-hour initial course with a certified instructor. Apply through NJSP and arrange training within the application deadline. Official guidance describes the instructor submitting the course result.
Confirm the current test format, pass requirement, timing and accepted classroom or virtual delivery with NJSP or your certified instructor before enrolling.
Keep your sources current
These sources were checked on 2026-09-16. Ask the named authority and employer to confirm the remaining local requirements.
The Get Licensed foundations course is supplementary preparation. Follow the required approved training and authorisation process for your location.