 The SCP Foundation has sites all over the world and in fact it has probably more employees than most mega corporations, has more employees than a lot of intelligence services, has more employees than some small countries. In order to make something like that work there's got to be HR applications, a system, and involved in this system must be a necessity for secrecy because unlike an intelligence agency almost everyone who works for the SCP Foundation has to be vetted, has to be trustworthy, and has to be able to withstand the possibility of blackmail. So let's talk a little bit today about how one might join the SCP Foundation. So first of all we have to consider the fact that the SCP Foundation contains numerous anomalies that have a wide range of technical expertise required in order to keep them contained. You get your basic end-of-the-world monsters trying to break out of whatever chains we built around them, so you'd need blacksmiths who can make chains out of maybe even anomalous materials. These experts in particular fields would need to have non-anomalous expertise that can translate well into the anomalous world and you'd want the top of the line people. One pathway we can talk about is the essentially college to foundation pipeline. The SCP Foundation almost certainly starts looking at recruiting scientists and researchers from college and that means that they would in most major and probably even some not major colleges have people on the lookout for the possibility of recruiting people. And that recruitment would probably start with a basic kind of minimalist approach like just to get a sense of who these people are and then afterwards to really examine their backgrounds, how many people there are in their lives, who would miss them if they disappeared and so on. Dr. Sumerian is something that a character that I originated, although it's been written by many other people at this point so I don't like to say that it's necessarily mine, but his origins as an SCP Foundation employee are something that I am well versed in because I'm the one that thought him up in the first place. So in my headcanon version of Dr. Sumerian he was brought on board originally after finishing a doctorate in English literature which is he thought was going to be completely useless and a minor of philosophy and originally he was just a writer for SCP-245 and when he worked on SCP-245 it was a very simple project. He needed to create a game that SCP-245 would not recognize as a sense of futility. That's about it. Technically the entity is 245, the game is actually 245-1. So his origins with the foundation literally just was hey we need somebody who can create a convincing story to trick this one SCP and then once he was done he was done there's no that that that is a self-containing SCP so at that point it was either no longer work for the foundation or continue to work for the foundation in another capacity and his evolution from that point was he started to work in the HR department and then he worked there for a couple years and eventually made it into the ethics committee which his minor in philosophy helped him get to that particular point. Now that's just talking about his career trajectory but his initial recruitment was about the fact that the SCP foundation just needed a guy who could create a video game for them in a way that the story would be convincingly tricky so that the SCP couldn't get out and if you think about it most people would get recruited into the SCP foundation based on a particular project and then if they end up doing other things it would be because that project either ended or their participation was no longer required. So you know you end up with people like Dr. Sumerian who ends up on the ethics committee after everything is said and done but you also end up with people who work as kind of like roaming researchers just kind of work Dr. Brites or the Dr. Clefs who we have no idea what their doctorates are in but we don't have to know necessarily and of course your MTF agents are going to come in from military they're going to come in from police forces in some cases they're going to come in from anywhere where you get training in and not all MTFs are you know when we talk about MTFs we talk about them as though they're all like shooty shooty good guys but or bad guys sometimes but in reality MTFs are a wide range of things so you know you got writers there's MTFs that are just writers that are MTFs that are just video game creators they're MTFs that are music musicians they're MTFs that are artists they're empty you know call sorts of creative endeavors they're MTFs that are just fry cooks I mean it goes on and on and on so you find these people and you put them into the SCP Foundation and then they work at their jobs until they're either no longer needed or they're again their expertise has been exhausted on this particular project but because human resources are so valuable and like you have vetted this person to the point where you know that they can be trusted before you hired them so even though their expertise is in say food preparation because you were trying to help use them to contain an anomalous Wendy's in the end you're going to take that person you're gonna probably put them in the cafeteria right because they have food preparation experience they are vetted fully and they're already read on and the idea that there's some anomalous shit going on and I think storyline wise and probably even beyond that more of like a sort of a young adult novel sort of recruitment thing like in young adult novels you know somebody comes along it's like you're the special chosen one we need your skills you're the only one who can do this job and then you get involved in a world that you didn't realize existed right it's very young adult the way the SCP foundation goes about things and that's probably the reason why kids tend to be drawn to the SCP foundation in general beyond this spooky scary spooky scary monster stuff that's going on but also that means that in the end it's really more about chance the idea that your particular set of skills is necessary to the foundation's continued containment of some anomaly somewhere would be the only reason you would ever end up getting recruited by them of course SCP foundation employment is not a trivial thing when we talk about it the reason why anyone wouldn't work for the SCP foundation despite the danger despite the secrecy despite the fact that you may end up having to leave the love your loved ones behind and pretend that you are now dead although that might actually be appealing to some people is the pay that's the end given the important part about this is that I don't care what job you're doing for the SCP foundation you were probably well paid for that position to the point where like you're making double or triple what you would make if you were doing the same thing in the civilian world and this is necessary just from the base core kind of like the government has a problem of people betraying their country because they get paid to betray their country there's you know there's the idea of split loyalties blackmail these other things but the vast majority of the time if somebody betrays their country it's for money same thing is going to go for the SCP foundation and trust me there's plenty of people out there who would love to have an agent inside the SCP foundation you know who have tons of money I mean there's literal companies out there that in the anomalous world like MC and D or Anderson robotics and etc and they probably have bought some member I mean heck MC in one of the stories I wrote MC and D basically buys a character who eventually becomes a site director they don't pay him though they just ensure that he gets like they anomalously ensure that he gets promoted but it's the same roughly the same thing that's the important part so yeah you're going to make sure that these people get paid and paid well and have lots of benefits lots of vacation time by the way because Jesus Christ are they going to have to take vacations from some of the terrible shit they see and of course you know beyond the money beyond the ability to apply your skills at a job that you maybe enjoy is the idea that you're also helping save the world just by serving lunch to some scientists and mtf and agents but I think that's it really you're just going to it's of random chance right you just need to be really good in your field show a lot of promise or be somehow invaluable or know a particular and unique skill that nobody else knows how to do if you have all three of those things even better and if you're trustworthy if you're the kind of person that's stable enough for them to actually believe that you would be good fit in their in their scheme in a way that you are predictable because this is the foundation is about nothing else if not control they'd want to have control of your private life control over your public life control over you and to be fair this is not for everybody for obvious reasons anyway that's it just giving a little bit of an insight into the employment at the sb foundation since I know a lot of people like to think of the sb foundation as though it were real so it's fun to just every once in a while consider how they would operate and thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video please scroll down and hit the subscribe button and I'm not joking about that this last month or so up till about now we've started getting more subscribers now but man a lot of people view this vid view these videos and then don't subscribe I would very 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