UK armed forces fast-tracking cyber warriors to defend digital front lines The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is fast-tracking cybersecurity specialists in a bid to fortify its protection against increasing attacks. It's understood the plans are to fill up to 50 roles by the end of 2025, condensing the usual ten-week basic training program to just one month before three months of cyber-specialist …
Why the ageism?
If you want to attract someone good, and retain them for that level of comp, you're better off targeting folks who's mortgage is done, career is on the back swing, who want to serve their country.
It's not like we're going to be sprinting through obstacle courses or routinely getting injured.
I'd be well up for a 5 or 10 year stint but not until I'm 55ish. Chances are very good that I already know everything on their bootcamp starter course and plenty more besides.
One problem with employing 18 year old digital-natives is their typing ability.
Having studied the online training materials it is clear that the cyber-ist that types fastest wins, for extreme cyber-ism you need to have two people typing on the same keyboard.
In my experience many of the younglings seem to suffer if not offered a gui and touchscreen.
So not a civil servant then? Likely uniformed (other ranks†) which for GBP 40,939 (~AUD 80,000) I wouldn't wish to take the risk of its being an exit level position.
"Would you like to fly our drones with a Black Sea holiday thrown in. ... I am afraid soldier that wasn't a question."
First rule in the army "never volunteer,"‡ the zeroeth rule "don't volunteer for that game of soldiers in the first place."
† defined in one online lexicon as "the playthings of Ruperts (q.v.)"
‡ if they could order an OR to, they wouldn't be asking which is also not good reason for not being a Rupert.
Wrong, you're quite safe, no quasi-military shenanigans. Most of us at Corsham are civil servants or contractors. Some service personnel get posted here, but they are Armed Forces first and only come here for a tour of duty or two. If this was recruitment for a military service, they'd have to say so.
Maybe in a hot war? Well, I have known commercial suppliers get hauled out the trading estate next to Tesco's and thrown on a plane, so nobody's immune. Still, better that than getting stuck working through Crapita.
"shortage of technical skills in the public sector, citing the remuneration packages on offer as a significant reason why it can't recruit the best people."
Well, naturally. People with specific skill sets are so inflexible. But classics and humanities graduates, not having a specific skill set, can turn their hands to anything that's needed so they deserve more pay.
quote: educated to GCSE standard and demonstrate graduate-level aptitude.
GCSE is school stuff. Then 2 years at college. Then undergraduate for 3 years. Then you are a graduate.
To have graduate level IT aptitude when you have just done your GCSEs would make you an aspie prodigy.
quote: to carry out counter operations against adversaries.
To enforce UK government censorship of porn surfing and web 2.0, shut down critical blogs, and spy on 'Private Eye'. FTFY.
quote: They'll also have to pass each force's health and fitness criteria
Muscular geeks only need apply.
They do need staff. GCHQ were too crap at their job to reassemble Boris's messages for the Covid inquiry, from the other parties, senders and recipients. Or was that perhaps intentional. Surely not. They couldn't be that corrupt could they?
You may want to go back and think about your comment.
I got GCSE grades back in the day, but had 22 years IT experience in Desktop, Networking and Telecoms.
Something tells me I was better at the job than a fresh faced Uni grad....scrap that I KNOW I was better, as I had to deal with several thinking that they knew better.
I've know many people that only got GCSE's (some even failed) that are absolutely shit hot at their jobs
They were talking about age - so if you were way better than a fresh faced grad ( here you’re doing the same thing and assuming 21/22 ) - how would you stack up against a 16 year old?
I think it is you that may want to go back and think about your comment. Your self proclaimed skill at work may have benefitted from brushing up on your reading comprehension exercises.
To have graduate level IT aptitude when you have just done your GCSEs would make you an aspie prodigy.
They want college level aptitude. not college level achievement. It's put a little clumsily in the article, but it's clear that although GCSEs are the only qualification you need, these posts are not for you if GCSEs are the only qualifications you could ever get.
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