Resume on a Prim?
Well needless to say I was some what taken aback when I saw a link to this Wall Street Journal article in Freakonomics today. Interesting article on how some recruitment firms and corporate entities are starting to use Second Life for their employment fairs and preliminary interviews.
Recently one of my DVoices buddies-Michael Potter queried me on some SL metrics issues due to my expertise(his words not mine). His firm is involved in advertising to college students and they are looking at SL possibilities for their clients. I am not surprised really, because in numerous conversations I’ve had on this subject recently my opinion is that SL is very suitable for B2B activities, particularly virtual meetings. Marketing and advertising to people in SL are entirely different and that whole model has yet to be built due to SL’s point-to-point geography and the online time usage habits and expectations of SL members.
Interesting point made in the Journal article, “For employers, Second Life provides certain advantages. For one thing, it’s cheaper than holding an actual job fair, where companies have to pay travel costs for recruiters. Hewlett-Packard, for example, says the cost of participating in the job fair — which includes buying “land” in Second Life — was less than the price of paying a third-party recruiter to hire one experienced candidate.”
So can we expect SL land sales to go up while “headhunter’s” billings go down?
