MI6 seeks recruits on Facebook

[BlueJessamine]

Source: The Guardian

MI6 is using the social networking site Facebook to recruit the next generation of spies. The Secret Intelligence Service, which has traditionally scoured the country's elite universities for recruits, launched a series of online adverts this month as part of its attempts to attract people from a variety of backgrounds.

"A number of public channels are used to promote job opportunities in the organisation and Facebook is a recent example of this," said a Foreign Office spokeswoman. MI6 runs agents in foreign countries and says it wants its officers to "reflect the society" they serve.

Before 2006 most recruits joined after getting a tap on the shoulder while studying at a leading university.

But since then the organisation has run newspaper and radio adverts. Those on Facebook have already generated a lot of interest. "There has been a very good response so far," said a spokeswoman.

The three adverts pop up as users of the social networking site contact each other. One, aimed at those with a university background, reads: "Graduates of all ages can develop long-term careers as operational officers, collecting and analysing global intelligence."


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/facebook.workandcareers

[msongs]

1. if they go on friendster they will meet a lot of prostitute women lol nt

[merwin]

2. Spooks Code 9 anyone?

New show in Britain...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooks:_Code_9

[WorseBeforeBetter]

3. But first, stop playing with your pet seahorse and focus.

Intelligence, people, intelligence!

[T_i_B]

4. Facebooks ads?

Beats all those annoying ads for dating sites I suppose.

[jakem]

5. ok, i admit i am new to it-

but i have yet to see an ad on facebook-

???

[T_i_B]

7. New to Facebook?

In which case I might as well point you in the direction of the DU Facebook group!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2426871461

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. MI5 turned up in the Google ads on DU once

for those of us in the UK, anyway.