Australia reveals ‘Best Job’ winners
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Tourism Australia has announced the six winners of its ‘Best Jobs in the World’ campaign, with a seventh position awarded by Virgin Australia.
American finance graduate Andrew Smith has been named Chief Funster in New South Wales, Brazilian travel photographer Roberto Seba has picked as Lifestyle Photographer in Victoria, and Irish entrepreneur Allan Dixon was chosen as the Northern Territory’s Outback Adventurer.
French tourism graduate Elisa Detrez has become Park Ranger in Queensland, while Englishman Rich Keam was selected as Taste Master in Western Australia and Canadian Greg Snell won the role of Wildlife Caretaker in South Australia.
The six were select from more than 330,000 initial entries from 196 countries. The shortlist was eventually whittled to 18 finalists, who were flown out to Australia this month for a final series of challenges and assessments.
“I’d like to congratulate all of the 18 finalists for the tremendous enthusiasm and effort they have put into this competition. The successful candidates each demonstrated incredible talent, energy and desire throughout the application process and will, I’m sure, take these positive attributes into the job with them,” said Tourism Australia’s managing director, Andrew McEvoy.
The six winners will be joined by Cameron Ernst of the USA, who was named as Virgin Australia’s new ‘High Flyer’, working with the carrier on the development of new customer service initiatives. All are expected to start their jobs between August and December this year.
The work also now starts for Tourism Australia, which will be keen to see if its ‘Best Jobs’ campaign is able to deliver a sustained boost to Australia’s Working Holiday Maker (WHM) programme. Since the competition was launched, Tourism Australia’s revealed that the number of fans of its working holiday Facebook page has more than trebled from 150,000 to close to 470,000 fans.
“The youth campaign that sits underneath this ‘Best Jobs’ competition is already delivering results, with commercial partners like Virgin Australia and STA Travel reporting increased bookings and Tourism Australia seeing a significant spike in international interest in Australia’s Working Holiday Maker programme,” said McEvoy.
In 2012, the WHM programme contributed AU$2.5 billion (US$2.3bn) to the Australian economy, with each working tourist spending an average of more than of AU$13,000 during their stay.
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