CCTV job queries seem very popular at the moment, presumably due to the current economic climate?

We’ve added a list of specialist recruitment companies to a new CCTV Jobs thread in our CCTV Forum.

The recruitment companies listed there all specialise in security job vacancies.

Many of them offer career guidance tips too.

Good Luck to any job hunters out there …

We’ve just received this Latest News from MI5:

Jonathan Evans, the Director General of the Security Service, gave an interview on Tuesday 6 January 2009 to a number of national newspapers. This was the first time that a serving Director General of the Security Service has given an interview to the media. The interview marked the start of the centenary year of the Security Service, which was founded in October 1909. The interviewers were from The Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, The Sun, the Daily Telegraph and The Times.

During the interview, the Director General discussed a number of topics including:

• the Centenary of the Security Service – trends and themes from past to present
• the threat from international terrorism – Al Qaida and related groups
• the threat from dissident Irish republican groups in Northern Ireland
• other security threats facing the UK and UK interests
• future challenges for the Security Service, including the 2012 Olympic Games and recent technological developments

For coverage of this interview from the newspapers involved, please see the links below (all links will open in a new window):

• “Opening up, but not lifting the lid“ (The Guardian, 7 January 2009)
• “‘We’ve got the terror gangs in check’, says casually-dressed MI5 head in first-ever interview“ (Daily Mail, 7 January 2009)
• “Terror trials ‘reduce threat to UK’“ (Daily Mirror, 7 January 2009)
• “We’re foiling terrorists – but threat remains“ (The Sun, 7 January 2009)
• “MI5 chief warns of threat from global recession“ (Daily Telegraph, 7 January 2009)
• “MI5′s spymaster Jonathan Evans comes out of the shadows“ (The Times, 7 January 2009)

Anybody can sign-up for the latest News updates at the MI5 website.

SMT – Security Management Today – Magazine will no longer be available in print.

It’s disappointing to learn this, as it was a stand-out different magazine in the security sector. Most security magazines are aimed at the installers, SMT (as the name suggests) was aimed at Security Managers. I know that many of the Security Managers that I have worked with were on the circulation list and found it a useful source of information.

Its strapline was:

The UK’s No1 for security managers

The magazine now has its own online pages at SMT Online, but I’m not sure that they’re distinct enough from the other information presented at that portal, and in my humble opinion I cannot see security managers visiting those pages in the same way that they liked to turn the paper pages.

Of course, if you are a Security Manager and you want to stay informed of all the latest developments in the field  of IP cameras, then why not subscribe to this blog or to our email newsletter?

Update 12th January 2009 – this page is attracting a lot of visitors:

If you’ve missed your SMT magazine and found this web page, please feel free to leave your thoughts in a comment below.

Update 20th January – people are now phoning us for SMT magazine’s contact and advertising details – if you click on the magazine image above you will be re-directed to their new web portal.