Saudi Arabia has advertised vacancies for eight executioners after beheading nearly as many people since the start of the year as it did in the whole of 2014.
The civil service ministry said that no qualifications were necessary and that applicants would be exempted from the usual entrance exams.
It said that as well as beheadings, the successful candidates would be expected to carry out amputations ordered by the courts under the kingdom's strict version of Islamic sharia law.
Amputation of one or both hands is a routine penalty for theft.
Drug trafficking, rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable by death.
Most executions are carried out by beheading, but a few are carried out by firing squad, stoning or crucifixion.
All are carried out in public and video footage sometimes appears online despite a ban on filming.
The vacancies were advertised on the ministry's website in the "religious jobs" section.
Last year, Saudi Arabia executed 87 people, according to an AFP tally, ranking it third in the world for use of the death penalty.
Already this year, it has put 84 people to death in what human rights group Amnesty International has described as a "macabre spike".
The interior ministry said the death penalty is an important deterrent.
But on a visit to Riyadh this month, French President Francois Hollande said capital punishment "should be banned".
