Recruiting in Virtual Reality

New game offers the possibility

Jerry O interviews The Robert about Second Life, an online virtual reality world that has drawn front page attention from BusinessWeek.

What is Second Life?

Second Life is an online virtual reality game in which you can use real money to conduct Monopoly-style business with other players.

At least 10 million people pay $15 and up a month to play these games, and maybe 20 million more log in once in a while.

Real life companies are using it for demos of their products and Jerry predicts that it will replace Webex as a place for online meetings.

Recruiting and Virtual Reality

Recruitainment is the use of online games to test candidates for jobs. It sounds like a virtual world can offer huge possibilities in this arena.

And, for that matter, when is the Recruitosphere going to set up shop in a business fantasy land where an argument about metrics can end in quasi-physical violence?

Or, in which you can interview your LinkedIn candidates in your virtual offices or offsite at Virbucks.

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Comments

[Jeremiah Owyang]

Now that's interesting, what if the first screening of interviews for jobs that require socialization or problem solving were actually in second life?