Help wanted: $78,000 a year to taste candy

while sitting on your couch

A Canadian candy company is offering a very sweet gig.
Candy Funhouse, an online retailer of confectionery treats from chocolate bars
to gummies and licorice, is hiring for a $78,000 a year ($100,000 Canadian),
work-from-home job as its Chief Candy Officer.
Duties include: "leading candy board meetings, being the head taste tester ...
and all things fun."

Several thousand candidates have already applied for the position, which was
posted on LInkedIn in July, said Chief Executive Officer Jamal Hejazi. He
noted that he's been surprised by the number of "golden ticket" themed
applications and the elaborate videos of entire families offering to share the
tasting duties and salary.
But Hejazi also sees the attraction. "Imagine your best memories around candy,
and having that every day at work," he said.
Candy Funhouse, based outside of Toronto, is headed by a quartet of 20- and
30-something siblings who grew up in the area and whose parents owned donut
shops and a local restaurant.

The company said the Chief Candy Officer position is open to applicants as
young as five years old — although parental permission would likely be
required. Many parents have filmed their child filling out the application and
posted it online.
The company has 340,000 followers on Instagram and three million on Tik-
Tok, including a Kardashian, Hejazi said, although he declined to specify
which one.
Right now, the company is prepping for Halloween, its biggest sales period last
year. "We have 40% of our stock in" so far, Hejazi said. Last week, candy giant
Hersheys reported that it will have difficulty meeting Halloween-related
demand this year.
Hejazi also noted that reports on social media claiming that the Chief Candy
Officer will be required to eat 3,500 pieces of candy per month are incorrect.
(That number represents the different varieties the company stocks.) "That
would be 117 a day," Hejazi said. "That's too many."