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As a GCHQ Fast Streamer you will benefit from having a structured career path shaped by your own particular development needs and interests. How fast you progress depends on how you perform - the programme will be tailored to you, and re-grading will be when you are ready for it. The following provides an outline of the sort of work you might expect to undertake whilst on the scheme. However, you won't find two Fast Streamers who have followed the same career path. Indeed, special one-off jobs, such as working in a project team implementing an organisational development programme or representing GCHQ away from Cheltenham, crop up regularly. Firstly……the chance to learn what Signals Intelligence is all about. Most, but not all, GMTs start off in intelligence production. As an intelligence analyst working in the heart of our business, you will be responsible for providing our customers with Sigint on one of our targets. This may be drug-smuggling, weapons proliferation, or a traditional political or military target. (Your performance, conduct and health will be regularly reviewed during the probation period, the duration of which will normally be 6 months. Subject to your achieving a satisfactory standard over this period, your permanent appointment will be confirmed). Later on……time to branch out. Your work will focus more on policy issues and we aim to provide you with an opportunity to broaden your knowledge of different areas of the Department. This could be in Corporate Planning and Management, Human Resources, CESG (Communications-Electronics Security Group, responsible for information security) or our policy unit. Or you may prefer to try a placement with another government department in Whitehall. Finally……what you've been trained for - Leadership. You will normally spend a year in charge of a small team, for instance looking at an intelligence target. How you perform here will determine what happens next. The emphasis here is on flexibility. GCHQ recognises that some of you, particularly those who have joined straight from university, don't yet have a firm idea of what you want to do and we will try and accommodate this as far as possible. Career breaks, for example, are now possible, as are development opportunities outside GCHQ, such as Prince's Trust Team Programme. We also recognise that some of you have already accumulated valuable work experience elsewhere and we will bear this in mind when considering aspects of your individual career path. |
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