Viral job advert inadvertently highlights best practice: 'Monaco lifestyle on a Wetherspoons budget'

A job advert - posted on Skyline Offices yesterday by Victor Pardis – has emerged as one that is unlike most that populates online jobs boards. 

While, at first, it may seem like a blunt, unorthodox study in how not to construct such an advertisement, it, in fact, emerges as a nonconformist example of how to write a job advert.

It seeks someone who is “desperate” or “demoralised”. Benefits include: the ability to select job title; “HUGE autonomy”; “access to our selection of booze from our ‘drinking globe’”; and, my personal favourite, “[upon leaving] a gushing and over the top reference that puts most modern fiction to shame”.

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Other doozies can be found in the section that outlines the ideal candidate: “wants to live the Monaco lifestyle on a Wetherspoons budget” and “has a thick-skin akin to an ageing, battle-tired rhinoceros”.