Can you imagine living in one of the British Virgin Islands with your partner for a year, taking care of and promoting tourism in such a unique luxury enclave? Can you imagine charging no less than £160,000 for this and also paying for your flights, health insurance, accommodation and meals? Well, it’s a real job opportunity advertised by the island’s owner through London-based recruitment agency Fairfax & Kensington, and it’s certainly piqued the interest of almost everyone.
In Spain there are also jobs advertised that arouse envy and are well paid. Although perhaps not as much as in the Virgin Islands. Paloma Pozanco, a 25-year-old from Cádiz who held one of them, believes so: “It’s incredible to be paid to eat one ice cream after another and also pay social security contributions.” “It is a dream job,” says the young woman who studied law, is preparing for competitive exams and has never had a contract before. “I would repeat the experience a million times,” he says.
Last October she presented herself at the Infojobs advertisement, which had the most applicants up to that point: 49,584 people applied. They all aspired to become a tester of Nestlé’s Maxibon ice cream and be the first person outside the Swiss multinational to taste the ice cream, which will be launched in 2024. She was the chosen one. Two days of work, one from home and the other in gardens far from his city, recording his opinions and reactions for posterity, for which he received €1,000.
The job portal has currently launched the fourth active offer of this type, which has surpassed the previous one with 52,292 applications as of last Wednesday. Look for a concert dressing room for the Wizink Center, which attends three days of concerts by Spanish artists such as Aitana and Melendi, enhancing the fans’ experience by allowing them to meet the singers, participate in sound checks and enter the dressing rooms. . . and win 1,000 euros. Another dream. There were still the positions of roller coaster tester Port Aventura (10,150 applicants) and snack taster Grefusa (41,105). Next month, Infojobs will release what the initiative calls its fifth cool job: mattress tester. A similar offer to the company Emma a few months ago, which offered a three-month contract with a salary of 2,000 euros per month.
“Cool jobs are experiences linked to fun, a hobby, and all those chosen must evaluate their experience,” explains Mónica Pérez, spokesperson for Infojobs, which uses these campaigns carried out in collaboration with companies to gain exposure and awareness of both parties theirs Employer brand. “We have two types of benefits with this campaign: we connect with the target group we are targeting, and from an employment perspective we also see that many people would like to work with us,” says Clara Vilar, brand manager. from Maxibon.
Collaborations
The companies with which Infojobs works are responsible for paying for the professional experience and recordings of the selected person, while the job portal is responsible for the offer, selection, salary of the employee, accommodation and maintenance. Since these are collaborations that are very successful, Pérez predicts many more similar offers, jobs that we have all dreamed of at some point in our lives, says Nilton Navarro, inventor of cool jobs and brand manager at Infojobs, cites Port Aventura as an example of his Impact: “When we published the offer for a roller coaster tester, applicant registrations for his job openings increased sixfold.”
For Sylvana Zamorano of the Taalentify portal, this type of work responds to marketing campaigns disguised as job offers, aimed at attracting the public’s attention and promoting a brand. And they succeed, he says. “It is therefore a very creative and striking way to publicize new products, services, companies or even the offer itself and thus achieve a larger number of users, greater distribution and impact in audiovisual media and social networks.”
Adecco also advertises dream jobs, which, as Pablo Gómez says, are not recurring or massive positions, but temporary positions and are designed to “get the public to know you, talk about you and see you as an attractive company , to work for.” ” In short: make noise. These are offers that generate an enormous response in a very short time. The star program of this company is the CEO for a month. For nine years, Adecco has selected a young man who has completed or is about to graduate and speaks fluent English to serve as CEO and to accompany the actual head of the company in Spain for a month. For this reason, he receives a manager’s salary of several thousand euros. This year, more than 4,000 applications were submitted for the position.
Miguel Calvo was commissioned to narrate the Madrid Tennis Masters experience on social networks.
More than a thousand candidates sought to become managers for tennis lovers at the Mutua Madrid Tennis Open, where the staffing company is looking for a sports fan who will broadcast the experience of the competition from within on its social networks. During the week that the event lasts, he attends the games, the press conferences, interviews the tennis players, etc. and of course gets paid for it. Another job that Adecco offers is that of a film trailer viewer, which is very attractive to film fans and can spend between two and four hours a day watching films – and their advertising – and commenting on them. According to Gómez, it is usually a weekend job.
In addition to the cool jobs, Infojobs also offers other positions that can be the envy of young and old. Among the dream jobs, the video game tester stands out, an offer that the gamer Miguel Ángel Román has actively and for which he pays 1,000 euros. There is also the car tester of a car dealership, in this case without a salary description, of car seats or luxury items. The job portal also manages the professional profiles required by Ibai Llanos or the King League designed by Gerard Piqué.
The offers that come for Christmas
With Christmas comes other moments that many dream of. And a variety of jobs that are generally more mundane and less ambitious than those previously reported. This year, 347,000 contracts are expected to be signed during the campaign, which runs from Black Friday in November to the sales in January, 3.5% fewer than in the past, according to Randstad estimates. Unlike retail and logistics, hospitality will be the only sector to see more hiring.
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