STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Should you like sweet and are older than the age of five, a Canadian corporate desires to position you on its payroll, providing a lovely engaging $78,000 in step with yr work-from-home sum. The task description? “Main sweet board conferences, being the pinnacle style tester … and all issues amusing.”
Sweet Funhouse, a web-based store that hawks a wide variety of confectionery treats — from chocolate bars to gummies and licorice — posted the candy gig on LinkedIn in July, CNN Trade reported. A number of thousand applicants have since implemented for the Leader Sweet Officer place.
Jamal Hejazi, the corporate’s CEO, advised the information outlet he was once shocked through the selection of “golden price ticket” themed programs and elaborate movies of whole households providing to percentage the tasting tasks and wage. However he mentioned he sees the appeal.
“Believe your perfect reminiscences round sweet, and having that on a daily basis at paintings,” he mentioned.
Sweet Funhouse, primarily based out of doors of Toronto, is headed through a quartet of 20- and 30-something siblings who grew up within the space and whose oldsters owned donut retail outlets and an area eating place, CNN reported.
“My brother Mo, a candyhead, based it in 2018, and my mom was once worker no. 2,” Hejazi advised the scoop company, including that he and a more youthful sister and brother later joined the company.
The circle of relatives’s objective was once at all times to distinguish their corporate from big-name competition like Mars, Hershey and Amazon with a “bizarre” combine of goods and no minimal orders.
“We’ll promote one lollipop,” Hejazi advised CNN about his corporate, which has a powerful social presence and did extraordinarily neatly right through the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, boasting gross sales just below $15 million.
In line with the LinkedIn advert, the Leader Sweet Officer place is open to candidates 5 and older, and despite the fact that it’s a work-from-home alternative, the fortunate worker will have the ability to determine of both the corporate’s Toronto, Canada, headquarters or the Newark, N.J., place of work.
From left, present Sweet Funhouse candyologists, Stephanie, Matt and Vanessa. Sweet Funhouse desires to rent a Leader Sweet Officer that can be paid to style check sweet. (CNW Workforce/Sweet Funhouse)Sweet Funhouse
The pay is indexed at $100,000 yearly in Canadian bucks, which breaks all the way down to $78,000 in U.S. foreign money.
“Being the Leader Sweet Officer at Sweet Funhouse is a lot more than simply amusing and video games, it’s severe sweet industry,” the advert says. “The candidate can be put via in depth palate coaching and a lot more. The Leader Sweet Officer will have to put amusing at the vanguard in their day-to-day regimen.”
The LinkedIn advert notes that the applicant can not have meals hypersensitive reactions and can be accountable for style checking out 3,500+ merchandise on a per thirty days foundation. However Hejazi advised CNN that quantity is fallacious and simply represents the other sorts the corporate shares.
In a different way “that will be 117 [pieces of candy] an afternoon,” Hejazi mentioned. “That’s too many.”
The corporate is recently prepping for Halloween and hopes to formally rent for this place through September, so the time limit for filing an utility is Aug. 31.
An additional added task incentive? The location comes with an intensive dental plan.
