Bored with underwriting, IT or corporate data mining and fancy a new job?
In which case, have I got the job vacancy for you: the people who live in the dark (MI5) need a new head spook.
It sounds like quite the workplace - 'We are based in modern, air-conditioned office accommodation with onsite facilities that include a subsidised restaurant, coffee bar, squash courts and multi-gym'.(Source) And it is an 'Investor in People' and is 'Positive about disabled people', so it looks bad for Italians...
But if any of you apply, you'll have to keep schtum: "If you decide to apply for a position here you must limit those you tell about your application to your immediate family (parents and/or siblings) and/or your partner".
It sounds like quite the workplace - 'We are based in modern, air-conditioned office accommodation with onsite facilities that include a subsidised restaurant, coffee bar, squash courts and multi-gym'.(Source) And it is an 'Investor in People' and is 'Positive about disabled people', so it looks bad for Italians...
But if any of you apply, you'll have to keep schtum: "If you decide to apply for a position here you must limit those you tell about your application to your immediate family (parents and/or siblings) and/or your partner".
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Well I "won`t" be applying C, . I haven o interest in this job . I will continue with my normal life.It will all be as ifnothing had happened...which it hasn`t.
Just felt it was my duty to relay the information...
I didn't apply, I assure you. I did not make a job application. In fact, I didn't even see your post.
wot a cracker of a website MI5 have got!
FAQ: "can I apply if I have a criminal record?"
A: "Yes"
(Seeing as John Reid is in dire need of somewhere to place convicted criminals, it can't be long before joined-up Government puts 2 and 2 together here...)
Best of all, a tab to click called "Who Are We Looking For?"
Yes Verity I note with interest that you have also "not "applied. If I say to you ..." the Trams run slowly in the Wintertime"....it will of course be idle chit chat and no more.
yeah, still haven't decoded that long transmission on *trams* by 'C' yesterday
I've got as far as 'trams' = trains carrying nuclear waste and 'Ken Livingstone' = Bin Laden...
yeah, still haven't decoded that long transmission on *trams* by 'C' yesterday
I've got as far as 'trams' = trains carrying nuclear waste and 'Ken Livingstone' = Bin Laden...
The problem is with the pay scales. MI5 are not what one could describe as big payers. Certainly not early in your career at any rate...
Newmania - The snow in Moscow makes slow work of shifting P.lon.um-.10.
Idle chit chat, Nick. Passing the time of day is all.
tony - Well, yes, but there's a subsidised cafeteria. Not that I would know. I read it somewhere.
I have various spook connections via friends of friends and relatives of friends, and one of them found that a great perk of working for Special Branch was that he could brandish his 'Warning - Armed police' flash card and get onto buses etc without paying. Very ethical. Doubtless there are all sorts of similar dodges...
I should imagine That it is an incredibly dull place to work.
Anybody who has had any dealings with army intelligence will tell you what a bunch of dull thickos they are ,
Friend of mine joined and learned to speak Kurdish then they posted him to Berlin(true)
God know what this lot are like.
Oh, God. Now PHitch will be running down to apply!
Sounds very dull. Think I'd rather be a danish fisherman! (see Hunter's latest story!)
Now you've visited their website they will have run a check on you. Not that I would know.
What about subsidised parking for my aston martin?
BBB - Nope, MI5 spies on us. MI6 spies on them.
Who's them these days?
Good point... Probably not Norway.
If I remember rightly, MI6 get the better deal, office-wise. Don't they have that rather flash Terry Farrell building* (partly) in green glass on the south bank? MI5 on the other hand, I think are in that rather gri-looking Lubyanka of a building on the north bank. Hear it was fun in the old days with MI5, CCHQ and Transport House all sharing the same local, The Marquis of Granby....
*You may recall this took years to build after numerous planning inquiries (objections to the prospect of 'the green giant', as it was not very fondly known). It was a speculative development and ended up costing so much money that it was rumoured it would never find a buyer/tenant to cover the cost _ until HMG stepped in, bought it for the spooks and spent a further £120million making it fit for M et al.....
Ceausescu Towers makes me so bloody angry every time I see it that I'm at the risk of losing all coherence. That the 'secret service' should be in just about the most sore thumb building in London, as well as being a staggeringly expensive waterfront development is well nigh a criminal act.
I would have thought that a converted warehouse in Scunthorpe would have been both cheaper and a good deal more sensible.
Agreed, C. But it makes a wonderful backdrop for a Bond movie _ didn't you just love that boat chase?
I have not watched a new Bond film in years - boring, formulaic etc etc etc.
Well I applied for the job...
bugger, there goes my application now.
I have met several ex-spooks from both the camps. The MI6 lot seem quite with it and scary; if a little more knowing than I give credence too.
The MI5 lot end up in dull jobs in risk management at various city firms.
...if I get the interview I will turn up in tin-foil hat, rubber boots and shades to really wow 'em.
"I would have thought that a converted warehouse in Scunthorpe would have been both cheaper and a good deal more sensible." Who convert it? Ambassador! You're spoiling us!
I haven't watched a Bond movie for years, either. And I certainly wouldn't go and see this one or rent the DVD. A NuLabour James Bond who doesn't like guns ... yech! Also, don't like his face. He looks too reminiscent of Andrew Marr.
Verity
I already have shooting cufflinks (see my blog)
Will that help me at first interview stage or should I leave them at home?
CU
MI6 is made up of ex army officers who work for a subsection of MI5
that and Alistair Campbells mates
I have already applied - obviously - and am limiting those I tell by only posting it here rather than on a popular blog like Praguetory!
I have already applied - obviously - and am limiting those I tell by only posting it here rather than on a popular blog like Praguetory!
Mr Mutley
As head of MI6 I hearby declare you sacked before you start.
Mutley - never mind the width, feel the quality.
speaking of quality, for Conservatism-&-Arts-heads the 2nd showing of Art of Eternity Pt is on BBC4 shortly.
Watched it first time around, quite interesting (on Icons)
Nick - sounds promising. I hope it does not clash with Newsnight - Crick is taking on the Smith Institute...
Also, check out this admittedly antique post by by Peter Whittle of the New Culture Forum.
no probs, the Icons are at 11.55
Off now to watch Crick...
As other people have been rude enough to wander off topic, may I recommend UKcommentators.blogspot.com for running the entire of Daily Mial editor Paul Dacre's Hugh Cudlipp Memorial lecture in its entirety (in fact, the thread's titled Read The Whole Thing) and fascinating reading it is indeed. (I might just mention, he scores many direct, killer hits on the BBC.) It's immensely readable.
Just to tie this in with the legitimate thread, I do not know whether he has ever applied for an undercover job with an agency of which I have no knowledge.
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