First Career Fair Held in Second Life Virtual World
Just when you thought that employers and their recruitment advertising agencies couldn't get more creative in figuring out new venues for connecting with their most highly sought after candidates, along comes Sodexho and their agency, TMP. From May 15th through 17th, Sodexho will host a virtual career fair in the wildly popular virtual world Second Life.
Second Life, often referred to by its users simply as SL, is an Internet-based virtual world which entered the mainstream in late 2006. Developed by Linden Lab, a downloadable program enables its users, called "Residents," to interact with each other through on-screen characters known as avatars. The SL world provides an advanced level of a social network service as Residents can explore, meet other Residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, create and trade items (virtual property) and services from one another.
Second Life is not a game even though it is sometimes referred to as such. It does not have points, scores, winners or losers, levels, an end-strategy, etc. As of today, more than six million accounts have been registered although many are not active and and some Residents have multiple accounts. Competitors include Active Worlds, There, Entropia Universe, Dotsoul Cyberpark, Red Light Center, and Kaneva
Sodexho isn't the only one -- I know that Microsoft is part of the TMP second life career fair, too.