Well, GCHQ employees, the majority of whom are of course not spies per se. My pal used to go out with a fella who worked for GCHQ, and it mainly meant lots of agreeing to the house's occasional phone tapping, and having to sign lots of disclosure documents all the time. He said he worked in defense; we reckoned he was the janitor :-)
GCHQ's recruitment campaign will appear through a range of Xbox Live games, including blockbuster franchises such as Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Assassin's Creed II.
The government agency is running the six-week campaign using recruitment firm TMP Worldwide and said that many of its recruiting criteria are "reflected in game-play experiences on Xbox, such as quick thinking, problem solving and team work".
Xbox Live's main demographic, 18- to 34-year-olds, is also a good fit for GCHQ.
Might be a bit male-skewed if it's XBLA, I wonder where else they're advertising?
Also, the thought of the ad in L4D2 is really making me grin.
(Thanks Dan!)
They were advertising on 1 vs 100 last night - but everytime the advert came on everybody's Xbox froze requiring a restart!
Posted by: Mr Tom | November 21, 2009 at 10:51
Glad to see our government is taking the impending zombie apocalypse seriously...
Posted by: Sebastian | November 21, 2009 at 14:30
The trouble is, you follow the ad, you get the job, and next thing you know the girl in your new dating sim is angling for specific tidbits about what you do for a living. She did look a little too pretty to be interested in you, didn't she?
Posted by: Space Toast | November 22, 2009 at 22:37
Snort!
Posted by: Alice | November 23, 2009 at 07:30
Amazing work has been done by govt. and i hope that govt. will invent newa ans innovative software in future.
Posted by: jam | November 24, 2009 at 11:46