35,000 candidates want Trauminsel job.

In the final sprint gave up the ghost server: The application deadline for the job of a custodian island in the Australian Great Barrier Reef has expired. Now we start the hot phase of the selection. Whether it's Dean Martin's son is? Or the Obama-Double?

 

Sydney - The prospect of "the best job in the world" with good pay in a dream Australian beach has attracted tens of thousands of applicants. Just before the application deadline in the night on Monday sent 34,684 applicants from around the world their video application for the job as an "island-janitor" at Iceland in Hamilton Great Barrier Reef, as the organizers announced.

In the last 24 hours before the final 7500 meeting applications. Those who waited to the last minute had to be Requested video on the Internet site islandreefjob.com upload was disappointed: The server broke because of the high operation shortly before the deadline expires on Sunday together.

One third of the candidates come from the U.S., reported the Minister of Tourism Queensland, Desley Boyle, on Monday, followed by Canada (around 2800), Britain (2300) and Australia (2000). Among the candidates was the son of U.S. movie stars and Schmachtsängers Dean Martin, Ricci, and a Barack Obama-double on the lookout for career change.

Washing clothes for the whole of Australia

Candidates shy, according to the Tourism Association of Queensland no cost or effort: A candidate turned in his video in six different languages, a Russian family was on the job for four and one half of the money to a candidate wanted to the laundry of all Australian residents worry about, it should be selected.

On the field of half a year on temporary agency includes such tempting activities like bathing, snorkeling and in-the-sun-loungers. The only real work is the driving power of an Internet blog about the virtues of the island demanded.

The lucky winner of the competition gets for the six months' work "converted 80,000 euros as well as the directions from the home country at the Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef paid. There may be "Iceland Caretaker" then nothing millionenteuren in a villa on the coast of wohnen. The campaign wants the Australian state of Queensland as a tourism region advertise.

On the 2nd March is a list of 50 candidates are, in the short-coming. On 3 May be the last eleven candidates for job interviews to fly to the island, on 6 May is the winner announced on 1 July applies his job may be.