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I got my job through Second Life

Looking for work? Your best bet may be an interview in virtual reality. Fortune’s Katie Benner explores the cutting edge of corporate recruitment.

By Katie Benner, Fortune reporter January 23 2007: 10:08 AM EST NEW YORK

There’s been plenty of hubbub about Second Life and the limitless possibilities offered in a virtual reality where a banker can become a virtual filmmaker, a housewife can be a virtual business tycoon and 46-year-old man can be a virtual 23-year-old vixen. The focus has been on people making real money in an online virtual world, but for those who have heard of eBay (Charts), the idea that everyday people can make money on the Internet isn’t so revolutionary. Second Life: It’s not a game

What Second Life brings to the party that few platforms or games before it have is a chance to blend the boundaries between reality and virtual reality, a possibility that has helped boost the number of registered accounts to 2.6 million. Walking around the virtual landscape, my travels included the fanciful (flying), the more stolidly real (political debate) and something in between (a questionable trip to an island called “Amsterdam”).

Source: Companies are using Second Life for recruitment - Jan. 22, 2007