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Dream job for chocolate lovers
Are you out of work? Do you love chocolate?
Then you might be interested in an advertisement that appeared last week in cinemas all over the country. (1) A major chocolate company is looking for a new Taste Assistant for their UK office.
The successful candidate will have to travel abroad regularly to look for the best ingredients for the company's products. (2) The rest of the time will be spent at the company's headquarters experimenting with different flavours. The best part of the job will be testing the new products, which will be done, of course, by the Taste Assistant.
No formal qualifications are needed for the job, but there is one rather special requirement. (3) Applicants need an excellent sense of taste and smell. The company is looking for someone with 'a good nose'. They have no preference for men or women for the job, and age is not important. According to experts, however, women are usually more sensitive to taste than men. They also say that we lose our sense of taste as we get older. For this reason, the successful applicant is likely to be young and female.
The first stage in the selection process will be an interview.
(4) If candidates are successful, they will go on to do a blind taste test. Here, they must identify the flavours of chocolate bars that the company has prepared specially. They won't be chocolate that they have to taste. The final stage will be a live ‘Taste Challenge’in which the five best candidates will take part. The prize for the winner will be the Taste Assistant job.
If you are interested in the post, you need to send in a CV with a cover letter. (5) The closing date for applications is 16 December. The company will hold interviews in the first week of January, and the successful candidate will start their new job early next year.