Who do you think you are, poor man’s James Bond?
Job Summary:
Posting Date: 22/11/2012
Company: Secret Intelligence Service
Location: UK-London-London
Industries: Security and surveillance
Job type: Full time
Years of experience: 5+ years
Career level: Experienced (Non-Manager)
Education Level: Under graduate degree
Salary: 50,000.00 – 60,000.00 per year, Performance bonuses on completion of missions
Hours of Work: Flexitime, Overtime, Shift work
Job reference code: 007
Contact information: mi6recruitment@hotmail.com
Secret Intelligence Service
Target Elimination Specialist
Job description
From time to time the UK government has a need to remove people whose continued existence poses a risk to the effective conduct of public order. So we require particularly skilled professionals who are prepared to work on a non-attributable basis to deal with these problems.
The role will involve international travel to a number of countries where individuals need to be removed.The ideal candidate will need to have no particular distinguishing features so as to blend in and be able to take on new identities as required. They will need to be resourceful in finding ways to accomplish their missions and, in some cases, to leave foreign countries by non-conventional means. The role would suit candidates with prior military experience, particularly in the use of sniper rifles.
The job holder will receive all necessary equipment, including passports, special watches, jet packs, mini-submarines and a Walther PPK.
This role is particularly appropriate for those who like their martinis shaken and not stirred.
To apply for this role, please express your interest somewhere in the vicinity of the large and rather fake-looking rock in Regent’s Park.
This job really is listed on the DirectGov jobsearch website (JobID=270089), and according to their own date, was posted yesterday. Wonder how long it’ll stay up? At least it’s not workfare….
Update, 20 minutes later: Ha. “This job has been removed from the site and is no longer available for viewing. Please use the form above to enter new criteria.”
Update, four hours later:
Re ‘007’ job ad – disappointing somebody would want to post a false advert when people are looking for real jobs. We’ve removed it.
— DWP Press Office (@dwppressoffice) November 23, 2012
Interesting: this confirms three things, none of which are good to know about the DWP.
One, their jobsearch website isn’t secure. It is possible for someone to set up a false account and post a non-job. This didn’t matter in this particular instance, because an advert for James Bond is obviously a non-job. But if one fake job ad can be published, so can others.
Two, their jobsearch website isn’t reviewed. The James Bond ad was up for at least half a working day before anyone noticed – and then only because social media told them.
Three, the DWP have no sense of humour. The James Bond ad is funny.
Edinburgh Eye 
thanks for this, I missed the original
Brilliant!
Reblogged this on Ramblings from a Strange Woman… I Am Not Your Average Housewife!! © and commented:
so glad she caught it before it was taken down
The job ad was comic, but maybe misplaced in these days when so many people are out of work. Oh, well. I think the job seekers could use a laugh now and then — life for them is pretty grim right now. I’m glad you posted this.
The agency drones are always in there posting bogus jobs to keep their KPI stats high so they do not end up unemployed! and the situation will get worse now that Zois and Lovelogic are forbidden to actively monitor the site watching out for bogus jobs.
i think that that just about exposes all these DWP quango’s as total scams, what a waste of Tax payers money !! they not out to help unemployed at all, but great if your on the payroll !!!
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Job agencies have for a long time posted unchecked and fake jobs online. I spotted one, reported it, got a call from the agency MD who blamed a temp for posting it. Truth is, they are like turtles, they’ll snap at anything wayed their way that smells of a reward. The Universal job match is a piss poor example of a jobs search engine and operated by… Monster an agency.
Scamers use this site to post stuff all the time. The government force us to login there on a daily basis and my ISP has blocked a couple of sites from there allready that are known to deposit malware on peoples computers and what does our government do about it …force us to read terms of service which absolves them from any any liability resulting from malware. This government have lost all credibility as did the last one.