What’s the job of a certified handwriting expert?
Interesting question, because that word, handwriting expert has two meanings, so you have to be specific. Are you looking for a job of a certified forensic document examiner?
That’s a person that looks at documents and determines the authenticity of that document, the truthfulness of it.
Did the person sign it? Did they not sign it? Is it a forgery?
Was Page Six replaced in the trust document like, what about that document?
Is real?
Think about passports and currency, and you know, people creating fake money that that would be a document examiner, they’re determining the authenticity of that document, that also includes the authenticity of the signature on that document.
However, they’re also a certified handwriting expert that are experts at personality diagnosis, such as HR consultants, therapists, counselors. So, if you are someone that’s seeing a life coach or a counselor, that person may look at your intake and say, oh, this person has an issue with your father.
This person is too sensitive to criticism, and this person has a low self-esteem. And that’s a great starting point for a really useful conversation of a counseling situation. Now, if it’s HR resources, they’ll probably never tell you that.
They’ll look either handwriting, but if you’re asked to fill out in handwriting, that means they’re probably looking at your handwriting to see if you fit the personality type of that, and they’re not looking into your good or bad person.
But if you’re applying for an engineer job, or a job like an accounting firm, where you’re sitting at this all day, not talking to people. That’s a very different personality type than a salesperson, an out of person, salesperson, like getting in the car, going knocking on doors, calling strangers. That’s an extroverted personality type, a lot of termination, a lot of ability to handle rejection.
There are very distinct personality types that will be wildly different than the person that will be comfortable in a cubicle doing accounting. So, there’s two kinds of it. The job of forensic document examiner is to work with attorneys, work with clients, and solve these crimes, these puzzles, and then if you need to go to court, you have to be ready and willing and capable and qualified to give testimony on the results of that. If you ever watch CS on Miami, they’ll do all the tests of the dead bodies, but that evidence doesn’t get in front of trial unless an expert presents it.
I watched a lot of the show Dexter, and you know, he’s a blood spatter expert, and there was. Scene where he was on the witness stand and he had the wrong file in front of him, and because he did such a poor job giving testimony, they threw out his blood work. Because even though he did the job correctly, and the evidence said this blood does certain things, you still have to have an expert explain those tests to the jury. So forensic diet examiner is doing tests.
They’re doing analysis on paper, whether it’s paper or ink or aging or just the analysis of the handwriting in handwritten items, you still need an expert to testify to that, so the judge and the jury know that that work was performed, and they believe in you.
They believe that you are qualified to do that. If you’re doing the psychological assessment, you probably won’t give testimony, but you will give a consult to the business owner or the counsel or even the client, and say, look, according to your handwriting, here’s some of the areas that might be of interest to you. What do you think? So that’s the job of handwriting expert.
And by the way, one pays way more than the other one. I’ll let you guess which one, but let’s just say, when someone has a million-dollar house on the line they’re willing to pay to solve a million-dollar problem.
And so forensic document examiners tend to make six figures or more a charge, 650 an hour, which I think is low. And handwriting experts or a handwriting analyst probably, or it’s a one-off thing, so a few $100 to the analysis.
So, one is basically really, really useful, but it’s not going to make it rich. And then the forensic enemy expert is one of those careers. It’s really hard to get into. It’s expensive to get into. It takes a while to get a credibility, but once you get court qualified, you’ll make money as long as you want to work. I know a lot of people worked and didn’t retire until 7080, 90 years old, because once you’re court qualified, they can never take that away from you. So that’s the between a forensic handwriting expert and a psychological handwriting expert, and yes, it could be used to import. My name is Bart Baggett, like and subscribe this channel for more information on handwriting. NLP, legal stuff, fraud.
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