Thousands of people showed up to apply for 150 seasonal jobs at the Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire, England.  Applicants came from cities as far away as Wales, Cornwall, London, and Yorkshire.  The zoo had to use extra people to help process all of the applications.  Managers said these jobs usually only attract a teenage crowd, but the applicants this time were of all ages.

The period of the employment is short term, and the pay rate is minimum wage.

Kim Riley of Twycross Zoo said: “We’ve had company directors who’ve been looking after major companies, PAs, lawyers, really over-qualified people applying for jobs for catering assistants, retail and front-of-house ranger jobs, which are just directing cars.”

Catering manager Paul Bramble added: “There was one gentleman that sat down in front of me, he was a middle-aged man… well-dressed in a suit and tie, he had a full CV in front in him, and I felt as if he should have been in my seat, he was kind of over-qualified to be going for one of the catering jobs that he was going for.”

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