Looking for work? Dress up your Second Life avatar

This is probably an inappropriate avatar to bring to a job interview - Image 1 A feature over at CNN Money reveals that real world businesses that also exist within Linden Lab‘s Second Life are starting to hire.

Joseph Jaffe, founder of Crayon, a company that provides PR, consulting, education, and advisory services, estimates that about 20 avatars on Second Life have come to him (while within the game), looking for job opportunities. Jaffe expounds on this by saying:

We are a small community. Someone sent a resume and wanted to meet in SL to discuss job prospects

…When we met, I realized that we had met before in Second Life when the senior editor of the Harvard Business Review gave a talk on marketing in Second Life.

It only makes sense really. Businesses after all are starting to set-up virtual-shop, it’s only logical that they will eventually need to look for people to man virtual stores and manage business and operations that run online.

Before you get excited folks, be sure to dress your avatar appropriately. You wouldn’t want to be the french-robot-mime that wanted to be a virtual showroom guide.

Via CNN Money

This is probably an inappropriate avatar to bring to a job interview - Image 1 A feature over at CNN Money reveals that real world businesses that also exist within Linden Lab‘s Second Life are starting to hire.

Joseph Jaffe, founder of Crayon, a company that provides PR, consulting, education, and advisory services, estimates that about 20 avatars on Second Life have come to him (while within the game), looking for job opportunities. Jaffe expounds on this by saying:

We are a small community. Someone sent a resume and wanted to meet in SL to discuss job prospects

…When we met, I realized that we had met before in Second Life when the senior editor of the Harvard Business Review gave a talk on marketing in Second Life.

It only makes sense really. Businesses after all are starting to set-up virtual-shop, it’s only logical that they will eventually need to look for people to man virtual stores and manage business and operations that run online.

Before you get excited folks, be sure to dress your avatar appropriately. You wouldn’t want to be the french-robot-mime that wanted to be a virtual showroom guide.

Via CNN Money

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