Recruiting with Second Life

Has anyone gotten into Second Life? (www.secondlife.com) I am interested to learn your feedback on the value of this? I have found that numerours large corporations such as microsoft are using this as another means of recruiting....Thoughts anyone?

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Permalink Reply by Elise Pursey on April 17, 2008 at 12:06am

Hi There Ryan,

My organisation KPMG gave it a go and had some interestiing experiences. During virtual interviews one of the candidates took their clothes off and sat there naked, in another one a gun was pointed at the interviewers head. So we tried it and figured its not really with our brand!

We are doing some online career fairs though. They seem to be working well.

Elise.

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Permalink Reply by RecruiterGuy on April 17, 2008 at 12:30am

I attended one of the Second Life job fairs as a job seeker - both (I think only two have been done as of today) seemed interesting, but the ROI looked questionable since they were pretty pricey.
Great PR - just wouldn't bet on the bang for buck... yet.

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Permalink Reply by Julian Stopps on April 17, 2008 at 6:40am

HI Ryan, I did some research on this over at born, so you might find the following items useful (although bare in mind they are mainly my take on the events I've attended in Second Life):

1. An audio review of a seminar conducted in Second Life (http://www.bornpodcast.com/shownote.php?sn=156&ep=19) - lacks recruitment focus, you might want to skip this one.
2. An audio review of TMP's UK job fair - this is a walk through of a job fair and includes some time I spent 'in world' with Phil Owers, Deputy MD of TMP (http://www.bornpodcast.com/shownote.php?sn=231&ep=30). This is likely to be very relevant as it's recruitment focused. I spoke to job seekers as well to see how they found the event.
3. A blog post and YouTube video walking you though how TMP had setup their job fair. It also includes a few comments on what, in my opinion, the environment offers recruiters. (http://www.bornpodcast.com/blog/?p=32)

I hope these help!