We all daydream about being a spy like 007. Wearing a tuxedo, playing poker with the enemy, driving like a madman in an Aston Martin and wielding a gun.
But do you have what it takes? To really be a spy? To work in secret to save your country? And possibly... the world?
Suave AF. Credit: United Artists
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Because MI6 is recruiting. Actively. It's looking for people AS WE SPEAK and needs more staff, which is actually a bit worrying. But let's not dwell on that too much.
Alex Younger, the chief of MI6, is bringing back the 'tap on the shoulder' recruitment method. MI6 is not getting the kind of staff it wants so now they're on the hunt for them.
This means there are actual members of MI6 all over the UK tapping people on the shoulder, luring them into the exciting and mysterious world of espionage.
They're looking for people from ethnic backgrounds, rather than the posh Oxford elite cliché.
And apparently the wrong people are applying to join the ministry. It seems that people watched Skyfall and thought, hey, I can shoot a gun, I could be a spy.
No good. Credit: United Artists
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But it takes more than the ability to shoot a gun to be a spy. In fact, there's not a lot of gun shooting involved with real espionage work.
Younger - who is known as C (hang on, isn't C in Spectre, as in CUNT, as in falls of a building, as in Jim Moriarty?) - told The Guardian: "I'm quite passionate about this. We have to go out and ask these people to join us. Before we were avowed as a service, that was the only way of recruiting people, a tap on the shoulder. That was the way I was recruited. We have to go to people that would not have thought of being recruited to MI6. We have to make a conscious effort. We need to reflect the society we live in.
"Simply, we have to attract the best of modern Britain. Every community from every part of Britain should feel they have what it takes, no matter what their background or status. We have to stop people selecting themselves out."
He added: "We have suffered from groupthink in the past. We have to get the maximum [number of] differentiated points of view in the room and for people to have the confidence to say what they think. Even if it's not the popular thing to say, even with people like me."
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So they're looking for people from ethnic minorities, who are not afraid to stand up to the boss and think differently. Does that sound like you?
As someone commented on Facebook: "Tap a stranger on the shoulder in London and you'll get stabbed." So good luck with that.
Daniel Craig As James Bond
Apparently, Daniel Craig would not get into MI6! Younger said that they aren't looking for Daniel Craig or even "Daniel Craig on steroids."
To be fair, he's probably a bit too old at the ripe old age of 48 to join MI6. His knees would give out.
"There is a perception out there that we want Daniel Craig, or Daniel Craig on steroids. He would not get into MI6," said C.
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That's a bit harsh. No wonder Daniel Craig is thinking of not joining the next instalment of James Bond: lack of gratitude from the agency.
You can still appy through the world of the Internet, here.
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