How To Become A Hunter: What It Is and Career Path

What is a hunter and how to become one

Updated January 8, 2025

3 min read

Hunting is a practice that involves pursuing, capturing, and killing wild animals. As expected, it is an age-long practice. Besides being ancient, hunting is recognized as a sporting activity. Humans often hunt animals for meat; however, it is also a leisure activity carried out to reduce dangerous animals and thin their population.

A hunter is anyone who practices hunting or hunts animals for a living or leisure. Over time, different people have embraced the profession, either because they enjoy the art of hunting or making a living from it.

If you want to become a hunter, you must understand how it works, especially in your location. Hunting is guided and regulated by a set of rules-rules you must obey.

Apart from this, it will help if you are licensed and regularly work your skills to make sure you perform well. To master your hunting skills, you should learn to shoot regularly, so you know how to hit your target animal.

ScoreHunterUS Average

Salary

6.6

Avg. Salary $84,127

Avg. Salary $59,228

Stability Level

3.6

Growth Rate 8%

Growth Rate 0.3%

Diversity

7.9

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 7.80%

Asian 5.94%

Black or African American 2.89%

Hispanic or Latino 8.27%

Unknown 4.04%

White 71.07%

Gender

female 44.30%

male 55.70%

Age - 44

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 3.00%

Asian 7.00%

Black or African American 14.00%

Hispanic or Latino 19.00%

White 57.00%

Gender

female 47.00%

male 53.00%

Age - 44

Stress Level

3.6

Stress level is moderate

7.1 - high

Complexity Level

4.1

Complexity Level is basic

7 - challenging

Work Life Balance

4.1

Work Life balance is poor

6.4 - fair

Key steps to become a hunter

Explore hunter education requirements

Most common hunter degrees

Bachelor's

55.2 %

Associate

18.8 %

High School Diploma

13.3 %

Start to develop specific hunter skills

Skills	Percentages
Facebook	32.63%
Cold Calls	30.11%
Top Sales	17.04%
DNA	10.79%
UAS	2.59%

Complete relevant hunter training and internships

Accountants spend an average of Less than 1 month on post-employment, on-the-job training. New hunters learn the skills and techniques required for their job and employer during this time. The chart below shows how long it takes to gain competency as a hunter based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data and data from real hunter resumes.

Research hunter duties and responsibilities

Manage shelf standards and conditions, tagging, rotating, and placing POS materials for products on shelf.
Prepare DNA for sequencing and then annotate its genome.
Deploy overseas working as a Mech/Tech on NGC UAV's.
Work closely with the CMC and his spouse to restart a failing FRG.

Get hunter experience

Generally, it takes 2-4 years to become a hunter. The most common roles before becoming a hunter include sales associate, administrative assistant team lead and volunteer.

Apply for hunter jobs

Now it's time to start searching for a hunter job. Consider the tips below for a successful job search:

Browse job boards for relevant postings
Consult your professional network
Reach out to companies you're interested in working for directly
Watch out for job scams

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Hunter reviews

A zippia user wrote a review on Mar 2019

Pros

The most think i like is arresting people that they think they are smarter than the police

Cons

I Like everything About being a bounty hunter