Tourism Queensland ran a great campaign called ‘The Best Job in the World’ for the position of Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. They put out a beautiful site showcasing the islands and the job. 34,000 people from 200 countries sent in their application ahead of the deadline yesterday. The fact that all applicants were required to send in videos of themselves makes this number look even larger. 50 applications will now be shortlisted over the next 4 days. The videos would be open to the public soon who’d be allowed to vote for a Wild Card applicant.

Update (April 27, 2009): There is one Indian in the fray as well – RJ Anjaan. Read about him here.

Update (May 06, 2009): A Briton named Ben Southall pips RJ Anjaan to obtain the world’s best job. Read here.

Right from the day Workosaur.com launched, we’ve allowed visitors to be alerted about relevant openings via Twitter. I am now taking the Workosaur blog on to Twitter as well. Followers would be updated about the day-to-day developments on Workosaur.com and are also encouraged to chip in with their inputs.

I was just about to book evening tickets to a new flick, when Nirupama from Orchard (Chennai) mailed me a list of movies that one should avoid during this season. And may God bless her because the movie I was to watch is on that list. So before you hit the cinemas, make sure you’ve gone through this list:

Any mails that I send or receive on Gmail get sent with a negative timestamp. Check the screenshot below.

Inspired by Karan Johar’s Koffee with Karan, I’ve created a section called Coffee with the CEO. Through coffee-table conversations with CEOs and thought leaders from the Indian industry, my attempt is to uncover their ascent of the corporate ladder, their most memorable milestones, and lessons that they’ve learnt on the way. (Yep, a lot can happen over coffee.)

So if you know a CEO, introduce me to him/her. I’d love to have a discussion and put it up on the site. You could contact by sending a mail to nimish [at] workosaur [dot] com or by calling me on +91.9769290870. I guarantee you that I shall follow up.

I decided to use some of the stuff I had put up on resignr and put together The Ultimate Guide to Quitting your Job on Workosaur.com. While you may not fancy quitting your job voluntarily during these times, do bookmark this section for future perusal.

Also, while we are on the subject of quitting, do read this mint-fresh post by Anantha.

In case you haven’t checked out this hilarious presentation that has been doing the rounds of everyone’s inbox, watch it right here. Also, I’d recommend you to watch it in full-screen mode as the font on some of the slides is quite small.

PS: A big thanks to Anantha from Orchard for putting this together.

When I launced Workosaur.com, I had introduced a Forum section at forum.workosaur.com hoping that it would have several interesting career-related discussion threads. I seeded it with lot of content initially hoping that visitors would drop by and have a look and carry forward the discussions. A link to the Forum was prominently displayed on the homepage. But neither did too many people click through this link and neither were there any meaningful discussions. So I’ve decided to do away with it and deleted that section. A dead rat can stink up the entire house if not disposed off. Similarly, an inactive forum/community section gives the impression that the site isn’t functioning.

For those of you who had contributed any content and would like to retrieve it, do let me know. I have a backup and could mail across your content.