Virtual Job Fairs Offer Second Lifers Real World Jobs

You’re virtually hired? Does that mean I get virtual benefits? Virtual vacation pay? What about virtual severance?

One big benefit of virtual world recruiting is that job seekers aren’t hindered by geographic boundaries. Pearson said that, when EMC participated in TMP’s Second Life job fair in late August, 150 people from as far away as Japan and the Netherlands requested interviews.

In its quest for top-notch salespeople and system administrators, Hopkinton, Mass.-based computer and software storage giant EMC has entered a new dimension: the virtual world of Second Life.

“It was fantastic,” said Polly Pearson, an EMC vice president for employment, in a real world interview about the company’s virtual world job fair.

For the uninitiated, Second Life is a bustling cyber-world, accessible via the Internet , where as many as 9 million people from 100 different countries gather to eat, sleep and shop.
And, apparently, land real world jobs.

Source: Linux Insider