美中情局高薪誠聘華爾街失業精英

Laid off from Wall Street? The CIA wants you -- as long as you can pass a lie detector test and show that you are motivated by service to your country rather than your wallet.

The Central Intelligence Agency has been advertising for recruits and will be holding interviews on June 22 at a secret location in New York.

"Economics, finance and business professionals, if the quest for the bottom line is just not enough for you, the Central Intelligence Agency has a mission like no other," one radio advertisement for the agency says.

"Join CIA's directorate of intelligence and be a part of our global mission as an economic or financial analyst. Make a difference in your career and for your nation," it says.

Ron Patrick, a spokesman for recruitment and retention at the CIA, told the reporters the agency had received several hundred resumes so far from applicants ranging from people just out of graduate school to laid-off bankers.

"It's going to be a very different use of their skill set than perhaps they've used on Wall Street," Patrick said.

Recruits will have to pass rigorous background and medical checks, as well as a polygraph, or lie-detector test.

Starting salaries range from around $60,000 for a new graduate to $100,000 for somebody with more experience, and top out at $160,000. Generous benefits are included.

Patrick said the agency would welcome worthy applicants from Wall Street, whose reputation has been tarnished by the financial crisis and revelations of lavish lifestyles and multi-million dollar bonuses at banks blamed for the meltdown.

"Typically the people that come to the CIA want to serve the government, they want to serve their countries. It's a different mindset perhaps than serving a company or serving profit as a bottom line," he said.

"As long as they can make that attitude switch from profit being the motivator to serving their country, I think they'll fit in very well with us."

在華爾街失業了？來中情局工作吧！但你要能通過測謊儀的考驗，證明加入中情局是因爲愛國而不是愛錢。

美國中央情報局日前發出招聘啓事，並將於6月22日在紐約的一處祕密地點進行面試。

中情局在電臺廣告中稱：“經濟、金融和商業精英們，如果你想突破自己，中情局將爲你提供獨一無二的選擇。”

廣告稱：“加入中情局的情報理事會吧，作爲經濟或金融分析家加入到我們的全球行動中來吧，這將使你的職業有所突破，還將爲國家做貢獻。”

中情局負責招聘事務的發言人羅恩·帕特里克在接受記者採訪時稱，中情局目前已收到數百份簡歷，應聘者既有剛畢業的研究生，也有失業的銀行家。

帕特里克說：“這或許和在華爾街工作所使用的技能非常不一樣。”

應聘者將接受嚴格的背景審查、體檢，以及測謊考驗。

畢業生起薪約爲每年6萬美元，有工作經驗者年薪爲10萬美元，16萬年薪封頂，其中包括高額津貼。

帕特里克稱，中情局歡迎來自華爾街的傑出人士應徵。這些人因爲金融危機、被曝生活浪費、以及從經濟危機的罪魁禍首銀行獲得數百萬美元分紅而名聲敗壞。

“通常情況下，應聘中情局的人都想爲政府和國家工作，或許這和爲公司或者爲錢工作心態不同。”

“只要他們能把動機從賺錢轉變成服務國家，我想他們會非常適合在這裏工作。”

Vocabulary:

lie detector：an electronic machine used mainly by the police to find out whether a suspect is telling the truth（測謊儀）

tarnish：to diminish or destroy the purity of; stain; sully（敗壞、玷污名譽等)