An al Qaeda recruitment form is among a trove of documents released by US intelligence officials from the 2011 Pakistan raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
The document begins as mundanely as any professional organisation's application form, asking candidates to "Please enter the required information accurately and truthfully."
Would-be hires are asked to "write clearly and legibly" and submit their "name, age, marital status."
"Any hobbies or pastimes?" reads one question.
But it soon poses questions revealing a more sinister purpose, including, "Do you wish to execute a suicide operation?"
"Who should we contact in case you become a martyr?" job-seekers are asked.
The declassified files also show Bin Laden was an avid reader of conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks he masterminded, as well as the Illuminati.
He had a number of English-language works, including from US investigative journalist Bob Woodward and Noam Chomsky, a vocal critic of American foreign policy.
The documents also reveal the al Qaeda chief's rarely glimpsed human side.
A US government translation of a letter he wrote to his wife, dated 15 August 2008, says: "Know that you do fill my heart with love, beautiful memories, and your long-suffering of tense situations in order to appease me and be kind to me, and every time I thought of you my eyes would tear for being away from you."
The files reveal, too, Bin Laden's fear that a microscopic bug could be inserted into his wife's clothes.
More than 100 documents - seized by US commandos on 2 May 2011 when they stormed Bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad and shot him dead - were released on Wednesday.
In one memo, Bin Laden comes across more like a director of human resources than a jihadist leader.
"We need a development and planning department," he writes.
As well as seeking volunteers with deep religious convictions, he wants recruits to have qualifications in office management, science and engineering.
Like any other organisation, much emphasis is placed on adequate training and weeding out slackers.
In the memo, Bin Laden recommends new hires be prepared for months at al Qaeda safe houses in Pakistan before being sent to launch attacks in the West.
"Any person we notice who displays boredom, does not finish the tasks assigned to him and gets mad quickly, we have to remove him from external work," he writes.
One memo, which CIA analysts believe was written by Bin Laden or another al Qaeda leader, grumbles about a recruit who stayed only two months before returning to the West.
"We gave him an academic explosives course and he travelled back before his residency expired and we have not heard from him since he left," it says.
"We hope that we hear from him very soon."
The documents also reveal Bin Laden planned a PR campaign to mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11 2001 attacks.
He did not live to see that date.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the files' release "aligns with the president's call for increased transparency consistent with national security prerogatives".
