Calling it "one of the largest hiring blitzes in our 100-year history," the agency says the big number of openings resulted from a wave of retirements and attrition rather than an expansion of the ranks, CNN reported Tuesday.

As is usually with the FBI, the agency is looking to find specialists in computer science and language skills, but "we're also looking for professionals in a wide variety of fields who have a deep desire to help protect our nation from terrorists, spies and others who wish us harm," John Raucci, assistant director of the FBI's Human Resources Division, told the broadcaster.

The job list, coming at a time of quickly rising unemployment in many industries, includes such positions as finance and accounting, security, intelligence analysis, training and education, nursing and counseling, physical surveillance and many others, CNN said.