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MI5 places job adverts on buses and Tube Philip Johnston MI5 is to advertise on the London Underground and on buses for intelligence officers and support staff. The security service aims to recruit more than 500 additional staff over the next year as part of a huge expansion to cope with the terrorist threat. It wants to fill a range of jobs from caterers to drivers, linguists,
surveillance officers and technology experts. Applicants face initial screening by a recruitment agency and then must pass a series of interviews and other hurdles before facing six to eight months of security vetting. It is especially interested in fluent or native speakers of languages like Arabic and Urdu. MI6, the secret intelligence service, is also seeking to recruit more women and has launched a campaign to emphasise the ''family friendly'' atmosphere of its work.
The number of women working for both MI5 and MI6 has fallen significantly in recent years - with the image projected by the TV series Spooks thought to be one of the causes. Recruiters believe the programme may have encouraged a perception that working for MI5 is dangerous. Women are thought to be more adept at watching Islamist targets because they are less likely to be noticed by radicals. MI5 recruiters are perplexed by the fall in women applicants, not least because two of the last three heads - Dame Stella Rimington and Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller - have been women. Other explanations for the fall include stiffer competition from City law firms and finance companies. ---------------------------------------------------
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