Canada’s Candy Funhouse is hiring a “chief candy officer” to earn an annual salary of $100,000 Canadian dollars ($77,786 USD) as its lead taste tester, tasked with trying more than 3,500 pieces of candy per month, or more than 100 a day on average.
In the role, you’d be approving candy for sale and making decisions about whether to award a “CCO Stamp of Approval.” This all happens in the company’s “Candy Intelligence Agency.”in chargeIt’s open to anyone living in North America, aged 5 and up, the listing jests. No food allergies allowed.how to use LinkedIn and “the importance of a strong resume.”You’d need “golden taste buds” and “an obvious sweet tooth,” according to the job posting.
Anna Lingeris, brand publicity lead at the Hershey Company, told The Washington Post that dedicated taste testers undergo six months of training to identify specific tastes as part of Hershey’s research and development team. “Chocolate and the variety of our snacking products can be quite complex,” she said.
Separately, more than 500 employees have signed up to taste products, on top of the chocolates and snacks that fill conference rooms and coffee stations, to be enjoyed with no obligation to provide input, she said.Mars Inc.— home of M&Ms, Twix and Snickers — has similar roles.
One man sampled ice cream for decades as the “Official Taste Tester” for the ice cream company Dreyer’s.
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