I’ve finally put together my own application for The Best Job in the World.

I appreciate that the video is not a slick as some and that I’m not a bikini clad young lady, but I do possess the actual skill set that is required for the post. I’m also a stills photographer, rather than a video editor.

A flaw in the stylesheet at www.islandreefjob.com seems to prevent Firefox from loading the job application videos cleanly.

Although the promoters of “The best job in the world” in Queensland Australia seem to have fixed most of their problems, it appears that the designers of www.islandreefjob.com have failed to get their site fully working with Mozilla Firefox 3, although it does work well with Google’s Chrome browser and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Some of the CSS is broken. The w3C CSS checker shows the following errors:

URI : http://www.islandreefjob.com/stylesheets/container.css
17 html Property overflow-y doesn't exist in CSS level 2.1 but exists in [css3] : scroll
180 #animated_title Value Error : margin only 0 can be a length. You must put an unit after your number : 0 auto 27

These errors may be the cause of the embedded youtube videos failing to fully load or play, although of course it may be some other flaw. I hope that the webmasters for www.islandreefjob.com get this technical fault completely resolved very soon, so that they don’t continue to exclude Firefox users from applying to go to be an Island caretaker in Queensland.

Following yesterday’s post about problems accessing islandreefjob.com it seem that Tourism Queensland’s web hosts have improved the availability of the site for the “Best Job in the World”. It now runs smoothly and efficiently, in both English and Japanese. Well done.

Looking at the video applications, for the $150,000 6 month caretaker and publicity job, most applications so far are unfortunately inarticulate or justifying their desire to get the job by saying they don’t like their current one. Many emphasise the their enthusiasm for the benefits of the post as if it is a holiday, not a job, without apparently noticing that paradise island caretaker will be required to communicate well and and regularly.

So far, there has been, to my mind, one outstanding application for the island caretaker job. She is Christine from Canada who shows personality and an ability to communicate well. Since I’m considering applying, she’s the current person to beat.

In Australia, Queensland’s Tourist Authority is pulling off a phenomenal publicity stunt. Which may be a victim of its own success, as the web site for a single job seems to be barely accessible because of the quantity of hits on their web site.

Queensland are advertising a well paid real job, under the slogan “The best job in the world“, for six month on the the Great Barrier Reef paradise island called Hamilton Island.

The aim of using this job to attract international interest in Hamilton and the other reef islands seems to be being met too well. In the few days since the Queensland Tourist authority started advertising the island reef job, it has attracted the attention of British, American and Japanese news media.

For the last three days, http://www.islandreefjob.com/ has rarely been accesible because of the overwelming web traffic.