Want to be a British spy? Then you'll need to crack the code hidden within this GCHQ puzzle.
There was a time when Britain’s secret intelligence agencies would recruit budding spies from the UK’s top universities, but in the digital age GCHQ has now turned to LinkedIn - the online recruitment platform - to help it find the next generation of problem solvers.
With a fresh puzzle to mark its debut on the platform, the intelligence and cyber agency has called on potential recruits to see if they can solve the problem if they are interested in a career in code breaking.
Hidden within the image are 13 elements which represent letters of the alphabet, which the puzzle solver needs to assemble to reveal a hidden message.
“The world is getting more complex and we’re only ever going to stay ahead of those threats by bringing together the right mix of minds that lets us tackle the challenges ahead,” says Anne Keast-Butler, director GCHQ. “For us, that means bringing in people with different backgrounds, different experience, different insights, different knowledge, and creating a team where all of us can play our part. For us, it’s clear that that diversity is mission critical.”
Ms Keast-Butler told The Telegraph that the LinkedIn page was part of the agency’s “journey to make sure that we reach out and connect to people who’ve never thought of working with us”.
If you've reached this point in the article, you may be expecting OGN to reveal what the answer to GCHQ's latest puzzle is, but sadly you will be disappointed. However, if you have the qualities to join the agency you will, of course, already know the answer.