Tag: recruitment
Signs of recovery in London’s tech market as job vacancies increase by 26%
New tech job roles in London increased by 10% in June and 26% in May 28% of all tech roles advertised in London are for Software Development & Engineering Tech […]
British Army fights back against robots with latest recruitment campaign
The British Army is fighting back against the influence of robots in the workforce despite new research showing that a third of Brits (30%) think it may eventually employ more […]
Number of tech jobs reaches record levels, claims report
The number of tech jobs in England and Wales reached record levels in 2021, with tech firms publishing more IT vacancies in the last year than all British businesses combined […]
Average UK tech salary now £74K per year
The average UK tech salary increased by 13% in 2019, to £74K per year, according to new research on global software developer salaries from Hired. This was the highest pay increase compared […]
Learn what it takes to become a Royal Navy engineer with this new iPhone app
Thinking of becoming one of the Royal Navy's elite engineers? Then test your mettle with this new iPhone app. Designed to replicate the challenging scenarios that the engineers face on a daily basis, the app features five mission that include…
Job Fact to help workers get a fair deal
Billing itself as the "Great Leveller" in the job market, Job Fact aims to shift power from employers to employees by offering transparent insight into the realities of differing jobs and working environments.
Still single? Why not become a spy for MI6?
Sigh. For all of the benefits that Facebook has given us, like easier communication with friends, a way of finding out gossip on what your adversaries from school are doing now and a means of sharing identikit pictures from evenings out clubbing, it’s certainly taken away the allure and mystery of certain things too. No longer do people take time in forming relationships and keeping their friends guessing – Facebook knows for sure, and has turned relationships into a strictly binary yes-or-no arrangement, and no longer are you allowed to feel shades of emotion, but you must either be REALLY HAPPY or SAD AND DEPRESSED, and you must broadcast this in your Facebook status. Unfortunately, this isn’t the end of Facebook’s influence.
In years gone by, shadowy men would approach the brightest and best in society, tap them on the shoulder and talk in ambiguous terms about working for their country, and only over time would they realise that they want them to become a spy. In the Facebook century though, MI6 has, instead of headhunting from Oxbridge, gone for placing recruitment adverts on Facebook instead. This seems like something as a climbdown for an organisation so mysterious, we mostly know it from the romanticised, glamourous version we see in the Bond films. MI6 could be only really shatter the illusion more if they let it be known that all recruits have to read the Health & Safety At Work Act poster on the wall in the canteen, and participate in quarterly appraisals where targets are set (unless those targets are “Terrorists and baddies”).