Your West Virginia 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 West Virginia. 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
Employees of licensed security guard firms are exempt from an individual security guard license. Individual licensing covers people providing services independently under their own name.
Confirm the firm's employee eligibility checks, job training and worksite conditions. Independent operator experience requirements belong to a separate licensing route.
Confirm employment status
Verify that you will be an employee of a licensed security firm.
Check the firm's license
Use Secretary of State licensing resources and confirm coverage for your assignment.
Complete hiring requirements
Provide requested screening and personnel information, and ask the firm to confirm employee eligibility.
Prepare for the site
Complete employer training and review your duties and emergency procedures.
Confirm your situation
Independent contracting requires a separate licensing review.
A preparation certificate does not create a licensing exemption.
Keep your sources current
These sources were checked on 2026-09-16. Check the linked regulator for changes before applying.
The Get Licensed foundations course is supplementary preparation. Follow the required approved training and authorisation process for your location.