It was announced that there were nearly 35,000 applicants who submitted videos for Tourism Queensland’s Island Reef Job. It would appear that there were not nearly so many applicants as there were videos. Only one unique email address was required per entrant. Carrie and Jonathan, for example, admitted on their blog that they submitted 5 [...]
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Top 50 Best Job in the World picks reveiled
Tourism Queensland has reveiled the top 50 Best Job in the World candidates which the world can vote for to become Caretaker of the Great Barrier Reef. The winner will become the 11th Wild Card candidate.
The top 10 candidates presumably have been chosen. All picks including the Wild Card entrant will be reveiled March 6. [...]
200 applicants shortlisted for Caretaker of the Great Barrier Reef job
Tourism Queensland has created a short list of 200 applicants for the Caretaker of the Great Barrier Reef job. There were nearly 35,000 applicants for the job so to make the short list is quite an accomplishment.
Tomorrow, March 3, the board will post the top 50 applicants on their website. The public will then be [...]
The best job in the world
Caretaker of the Great Barrier Reef has been billed as “the best job in the world.” Tourism Queensland says “the most important duty is to report back and let us know what’s taking place on the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef.”
The news media seems to think this is a 6 month vacation in paradise. [...]
Applications close with 34,684 applicants
The application process for the Caretaker of the Great Barrier Reef has now closed. Tourism Minister Desley Boyle said she was blown away by the interest in the island caretaker role. During the closing hours there were 4,000 applicants trying to upload their videos. The website slowed to the point where not all of them [...]