{"id":344,"date":"2015-06-29T08:50:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T08:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:24:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:24:55","slug":"65000-people-apply-for-nail-polish-tester-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/65000-people-apply-for-nail-polish-tester-job\/","title":{"rendered":"65,000 People Apply For \u00a335k Per Year Nail Polish Tester Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nail polish \u2018tester\u2019 job with a salary of \u00a335,000 per annum has received over 65,000 applicants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nailbox.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nailbox<\/a>\u00a0is a UK subscription box where customers can sign up to receive the latest trends in nail polish straight to their door each month.<\/p>\n<p>The company is currently advertising a \u2018Nail Tester\u2019 career, which involves receiving 50 nail polishes and accessories per month that need to be tested and reviewed with photographs.<\/p>\n<p>In the job spec, Nailbox states: \u201cIt is also critical that the successful candidate is prepared to withdraw themselves from any physical labour or household chores which may damage their hands e.g. washing up and gardening\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The application is simple and straightforward, asking for UK based applicants for basic address information, as well as no more than 100 words as to why they deserve the job.<\/p>\n<p>32% of the 65,000 applicants so far, however, have applied from outside of the UK and 26% have gone well over the 100 word limit, so the job is still definitely up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nailbox.co.uk\/careers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to apply<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the deadline is June 30th, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nail polish \u2018tester\u2019 job with a salary of \u00a335,000 per annum has received over 65,000 applicants. Nailbox\u00a0is a UK subscription box where customers can sign up to receive the latest trends in nail polish straight to their door each month. The company is currently advertising a \u2018Nail Tester\u2019 career, which involves receiving 50 nail polishes and accessories per month that need to be tested and reviewed with photographs. In the job spec, Nailbox states: \u201cIt is also critical that the successful candidate is prepared to withdraw themselves from any physical labour or household chores which may damage their hands <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}