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Overweight and unemployed? Help is now at hand for those suffering from this particular depressing double whammy. National Slimming Clinics is offering to help five 'active' job seekers by putting them on a weight loss programme aiming to get them "back on their feet". Presumably if these people were 'active' they would be...

Disciples will remember the so-called 'best jobs in the world' advertised last year: tropical island caretaker, theme park reviewer, lap dance club researcher. Now there's a variation on the theme: the highest job. There is a downside, however - it's based in Wales. The Snowdon Mountain Railway Company is looking for a manager for the...

Imagine the administrative nightmare for HR to sort this lot out. An estimated one million people are expected to take the national entrance exam for civil service jobs in China. However there are only 15,000 positions available. If Guru's maths is correct, that's a 1 in 66 chance of landing a plum low-paid job pushing paper in a faceless government...

Someone under the pseudonym Mr City Man posted this comment on a career blog. It never actually got published but Guru can now reveal its full glory to disciples as it provides a window into the world of one young man trying to get a job in media sales. Potentially libellous and defamatory comments have been edited out. Spelling mistakes and grammatical...

BREAKING NEWS... BREAKING NEWS... Disciples will remember the story of the recruitment campaign to appoint a new Wookey Hole witch. Former estate agent Carole Bohanan - now known as Carla Calamity - beat hundreds of cackling rivals to the job. But now it has been revealed she could be about to cast her last spell. The tourist site's boss has said...

Guru has (somewhat reluctantly) accepted that stoodents have just as much right to walk the earth as Yours Truly does. After all, they are a ready source of cheap labour for us employers to exploit, particularly now there are legions of graduates desperately searching for a job, any job, please sir... But what to do with the great unwashed when they...

Wanted: TV host, £220 per shift, three days a week, good in front of the camera... and be happy to work semi-naked. Jobcentre Plus is fulfilling its duty to advertise any legal job - this one just happens to be for the host of a TV porn channel. The advert on the Jobcentre Plus website states: "Duties involve explicit sexual dialogue which may...

Three contestants from the French reality TV show 'Temptation Island' have been awarded compensation after a court ruled they have the same entitlements to pay and benefits as employees. A judge decided that the taking part in the show, called l'Ile de la Tentation amounted to a job in terms of French labour laws, which stipulate that no...