Ferrero is looking for aspiring tasters to test its products

The Italian group Ferrero is looking for 60 aspiring tasters to test the raw materials of its chocolate sweets and its Nutella: this offer, a first, has quickly become viral on the Net.

Usually, this type of mission is carried out by internal staff, but Ferrero has chosen for the first time to do a tasting job involving people " normal ", not working in the sector, we learned Thursday from the group Italian, which evokes a continuous search for quality.

" Looking for 60 sensory judges for confectionery tasting activities ", says the announcement published on the site Openjobmetis.

The target audience by Soremartec Italia, the research and development company of Ferrero: " people who would like to learn how to taste cocoa, hazelnut powder and other sweet products semifinis "

Three months training

A paid training course will be offered to the lucky ones for three months from September, with" the goal of educating the sense of smell and taste and improve (their) ability to express what he perceives during tastings of semifinis products ".

At the end of the course, the 40 successful candidates will be hired with a contract of 4 hours per week in Alba, Ferrero's headquarters in northern Italy

The world's third largest manufacturer of chocolate confectionery, Ferrero doubled its turnover in ten years to more than ten billion euros. It has 22 production sites and more than 30,000 employees.