In the doom and gloom that continues to fall over the UK’s employment market, this vacancy may sound too good to be true, but it isn’t. According to this Reuters article, world-wide interest in Tourism Queensland’s opportunity to become caretaker of a tropical island off the Great Barrier Reef caused the website to crash.
You have to submit a 60 second video as part of the application process. Candidates’ videos can be viewed on the website – and you can even rank which ones you think are best. It’s no surprise to see that the better-looking candidates get the most stars – some things never change….
According to Tourism Queensland, 200,000 people applied in the first 24 hours. That’s what we call stiff competition. According to the website you’ve got until Feb 22nd to apply….
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May 6th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
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