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Career in MI5
OK before you answer I know I'm not going to be issued a Walther PPK and a Amphibious Aston DB9! However as a graduate I'm toying with the idea of applying (among a pileworth of other varied applications) but I have a few questions.
-What doe's this (graduate entry) position consist? What would be a 'normal' week for one in this position, and what tasks would normally be carried out?
-What do the entry assessments for an potential employee consist of?
-What personal requirements would MI5 find desirable?
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I am sorry to say that for most of the Security Services (MI5/MI6 etc) YOU don't apply to them, THEY seek you out.They have people who say "So and so would make good recruit".Quite how,where and when they do I could not say,it is hush hush after all!
Maybe someone else on AB will be able to tell you how?
I believe that the qualities required for working in this area would be roughly similiar to those needed for working in investment banking. Excellent academics, people skills, and and eye for detail coupled with tact and discretion.
Entry assessment could be anything up to 20 phases.
There is no "normal" week.
Hope that answers the question. My good deed for the day is done.
I don't think the they recruit you thing is true any more. The days of the old school tie have well gone.
If you haven't already take a good long look at MI5's website here http://www.mi5.gov.uk/ there's a section on jobs.
However without being rude I would have expected somebody looking for a career in MI5 to have figured that out.
By the way don't join them if you want to get rich - civil service pay grades and all that
MI5 were doing a big recruitment campaign in The Sun (of all newspapers!) about 2 years ago.
Graduate entry usually means that if you have been to uni and have a degree then you are qualified to do pretty much any job in the world. Its how large organisations recruit, i.e. totally blinkered and unable to recognise talent before qualifications. "Hey great, you have a masters in textile design, come and be a spy!"
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