Do you have what it takes to be a spy? | BBC Ideas
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- What qualities are the UK security services looking for when they recruit? (Spoiler alert: James Bond wannabes need not apply.)
Made by Costanza Gambarini in partnership with @TheOpenUniversity
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0:00 Introduction
0:30 The UK's three intelligence agencies
0:50 Brief history of recent intelligence threats
1:05 How spies were recruited - and who was allowed to join the UK's intelligence services
2:35 How to apply to MI5/MI6
2:51 Working as an intelligence analyst for GCHQ
3:03 What are the agencies looking for in new recruits?
4:08 The challenge of the James Bond stereotype
4:47 Why diversity is still an issue
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Maybe I ought to apply.
Putting camera's in the toilet does not make you a spy.
language skills.
I Think I can't be a spy
If you can sit in a van for 10 hours watching some dude, you can be a spy. Pretty sure outside of sig-int, what you'll do won't really evolve any complex or creative problem solving skills the vast majority of the time. What you really need is the ability to accept a relatively nationally low wage, and be okay in a few years you won't be able to afford to pay rent.
Very interesting, I'm wanting to learn more about these types of opportunities.
Miss Marples has Great Potential ! I would imagine it's easier with web access and a few Trojans to socialise with a Windows party 🔥
The canaries fly at the blue moon.
Then the sky would be shining green... am I *in* ?