Britain's top spies pose tricky brainteaser – can you solve it? | N2J5DDY | 2024-03-15 11:08:01
We're all used to jumping via hoops to get a job – there's the CV, the shape where you set in all the data from your CV, a canopy letter and more.
However should you're gunning to hitch the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain's century-old spy agency, there's yet one more hoop you should do.
To seek out recruits who 'assume outdoors the field', GCHQ posted a brand new job spec this morning asking wannabe spies to solve a puzzle.
'To have fun our arrival on LinkedIn we've labored with artist& Justin Eagleton& to supply this particular visible puzzle for you to full,' GCHQ stated on LinkedIn this morning.
'Inside the image are 13 parts that characterize letters of the alphabet. Your process is to determine those letters and assemble them to reveal a hidden message.'
The quite trippy-looking mini puzzle is a nod to GCHQ's code-breaking roots, with a high-definition model obtainable to download here.
It options the whole lot from GCHQ's Gloucestershire workplace and Alan Turing to a helicopter carrying an previous tv and someone sporting a sweatband with the LGBTQ+ Satisfaction flag.
…And after wanting over the puzzle ourselves, all we will say to you is sweet luck.
But if you end up too stuck on it, GCHQ stated it'll reveal the solutions tomorrow.
Director GCHQ, Anne Keast-Butler, stated that variety is 'important' to the company's mission to keep the country protected, which is why joining LinkedIn was a no-brainer.
'The world is getting extra complicated and we're solely ever going to stay ahead of these threats by bringing collectively the right combination of minds that lets us deal with the challenges ahead,' she stated.
'For us, meaning bringing in individuals with totally different backgrounds, totally different experience, totally different insights, totally different information, and making a group where all of us can play our part.'
GCHQ's determination to hitch LinkedIn – which makes it the first intelligence company to do so – was executed to help it attain out to individuals 'who've never thought to work with us', Keast-Butler added.
Jobs at GCHQ aren't just for tuxedo-wearing James Bond varieties. Different gigs embrace intelligence analysts and knowledge scientists, enterprise help officers and engineers.
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