Fake job ad for Farage PA receives hundreds of applications
2 May 2014
The role of Nigel Farage’s PA has become the most sought-after job in Britain, but not necessarily for the right reasons.
Fri, 2 May 2014The role of Nigel Farage’s PA has become the most sought-after job in Britain, but not necessarily for the right reasons.
Recruitment firm, Xpat Jobs, posted a fake job advert seeking a personal assistant for the Ukip leader and were inundated with applications.
The advert was posted after the Ukip leader said that only his wife – who is German – was capable of fulfilling the role while earning "a very modest salary for working extremely unsociable hours for me and being available up to seven days a week".
Farage was forced to defend the comments while his party launched a poster campaign warning that unemployed Europeans wanted to take British jobs.
The post advertised was for a PA to a "top European politician" affiliated to Ukip, which was described as "a Eurosceptic rightwing populist political party in the United Kingdom". The recruiter said it received 764 applications – including 649 from British nationals – in the space of 12 hours.
On receiving the applications Xpat jobs, which specialises in multilingual recruitment, said they would pass on the 25 best CVs to Farage himself.
Recruitment firm, Xpat Jobs, posted a fake job advert seeking a personal assistant for the Ukip leader and were inundated with applications.
The advert was posted after the Ukip leader said that only his wife – who is German – was capable of fulfilling the role while earning "a very modest salary for working extremely unsociable hours for me and being available up to seven days a week".
Farage was forced to defend the comments while his party launched a poster campaign warning that unemployed Europeans wanted to take British jobs.
The post advertised was for a PA to a "top European politician" affiliated to Ukip, which was described as "a Eurosceptic rightwing populist political party in the United Kingdom". The recruiter said it received 764 applications – including 649 from British nationals – in the space of 12 hours.
On receiving the applications Xpat jobs, which specialises in multilingual recruitment, said they would pass on the 25 best CVs to Farage himself.
