Are you looking for a new job? Then the Royal Navy might have a suitable position for you. The British Navy is looking for a new submarine admiral via a curious job advertisement on LinkedIn.
The shortage of skilled workers is apparently not only keeping a tight grip on the German job market. The Royal Navy – the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy – is also desperately looking for personnel.
Like many other employers, it is resorting to simple means and posting vacancies on LinkedIn. But in this case, it really is an extremely curious job advertisement.
The Royal Navy placed this curious job advertisement on LinkedIn
The career network LinkedIn has become increasingly important in the past. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland alone, the platform has around 22 million members.
There are also numerous members on the platform in the United Kingdom. There are as many as 37 million here, putting it in fourth place worldwide.
But LinkedIn is not just about your own CV and networking with professional contacts. The job search section is also becoming increasingly popular.
And the Royal Navy apparently wants to benefit from this. As the Telegraph reports, the British Navy has published a job advertisement for a submarine rear admiral here.
This is what is known about the position
The reason for the curious job advertisement is the departure of the current Rear Admiral Simon Asquith. He was previously Director of the Submarine Fleet and therefore also responsible for the “highly secret” stealth technology and elite operations. But the “nuclear deterrent” Trident also fell within his remit.
To be considered for the position, applicants must be a member of the reserves or have served in the regular armed forces. An annual salary of more than 170,000 euros is then on offer.
Not everyone is enthusiastic about the curious job advertisement
But the job advertisement is not only met with goodwill. The Telegraph quotes a former submariner. He describes the search for personnel via LinkedIn as “extremely shameful”.
Former naval commander Tom Sharpe, on the other hand, sees things differently. “In an ideal world, the Royal Navy would select from its own ranks,” he told the Telegraph. But as this is not the case, it makes sense to “cast the net a little wider for this position”.
