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11/12/2017 at 18:53 #78573John D SaltParticipant
If you know any wargamers young enough to regard the advertised salary as attractive, you might draw their attention to this:
Hat tip to John Curry.
All the best,
John.
11/12/2017 at 19:21 #78574willzParticipantI got the hobby bit but my age may preclude me.
11/12/2017 at 19:59 #78577Guy FarrishParticipantInteresting, I wonder how much confusion I could cause if I applied given my former employment and civil service pension etc?
12/12/2017 at 10:20 #78595WhirlwindParticipantThat’s an amazing opportunity.
12/12/2017 at 11:27 #78604Prince RhysParticipantI agree Whirlwind – great opportunity and a decent salary – at least to a peasant like me.
12/12/2017 at 22:33 #78690John D SaltParticipantI agree Whirlwind – great opportunity and a decent salary – at least to a peasant like me.
Obviously people have different ideas as to what constitutes a decent salary, but if you consider that HEO is supposedly the rank equivalent of a Major in the Army (NATO OF-3), the lower end of the pay band is about £5,000 a year less than the equivalent grade in MoD (outside London), £23,000 a year less than an actual Major, and has been subject to a pay freeze for over five years.
Against that, DSTL does include some splendid and interesting people, gives opportunities for interesting work, and is unusual among UK organisations in that it still seems to believe in training for its new staff. This post does not seem to insist on a degree, and if, as I imagine, quite a lot of the work will be organising “Connections”, well, the salary does not seem too bad compared to the pittance event organisers seem to get.
Still, I cannot stress too strongly that people with expertise in wargaming, simulation, software development, operational research, French and Russian (to choose a completely random sample of skills) are worthy of the most lavish imaginable emoluments.
All the best,
John.
13/12/2017 at 02:25 #78695EtrangerParticipant……. Still, I cannot stress too strongly that people with expertise in wargaming, simulation, software development, operational research, French and Russian (to choose a completely random sample of skills) are worthy of the most lavish imaginable emoluments. All the best, John.Worth their Salt you might say?13/12/2017 at 04:13 #78698DMParticipantThat reminds me, i was challenged to design a game for Connections 2018, I’d better get my thinking cap on!
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