Recruits face online interviews in Second Life

By Annie Waite, Global Editor of the Internal Comms Hub, Melcrum

Did you hear about Second Life's virtual job fair earlier this year? It saw 2,000 visitors show up to "watch" 300 nervous interviewees field the tough questions – and eBay, HP, Microsoft, Sodexho, T-Mobile, and Verizon were apparently some of the organisations that took part.

I was thinking that perhaps forward-thinking communication agencies, for example, or those seeking more technically-savvy or innovative comms employees might want to give that kind of social media-based recruitment method for communicators a try?

I wonder if any of this blog's readers took part or know someone who did? It'd be interesting to find out how successful it was, so please let us know...

Soundtrack to the blog: Escape (the Second Life Song) by Niko Donburi - yes, it seems there is such a thing!

Comments

Can't help you there Annie. But I did hear another Second Life story this week that made me chuckle about phone companies experimenting with the technology to allow phone calls from Second Life. Hang on, what's wrong with real phones for that?