Jobfair

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Jobfair in Second Life the 5th. February 2008

11 Companies participated the Power-Match jobfair
IBM, Saxobank, Grundfos, FLSmidth, TDC, The Danish Ministry of Taxation, Termax, Job-Support, IKU (Institut for Karriereudvikling), Hartmanns, Børsen.

The program
The jobfair was announced to last for 2 hours beginning at 10AM PST SL-time (Danish time 19:00). At 11AM PST Grundfos held a presentation (on voice) in the auditorium with PowerPoint slides. We had some doubts about using voice directly instead of streaming, but it worked just perfectly.
Through the jobfair we did some advertsing over “worlds message”. One of the advertises came from FLSmidth, they offered 10 percent off on cementfactories, hehe.

120 candidates joined the jobfair
The number of visitors was a bid disappointing! On the last jobfair we had about 200 visitors, and I had hoped for many more this time.
The good point: the companies reported back that they have had more serious candidates this time. Better have quality over of quantity.

Publicity
Søren Holmberg sent a press release about the Power-Match jobfair, but no media wanted to write about it. In Denmark Second Life is very antihype at the moment. The media only writes about silly and bad/wrong material. Example;
Poor salary to Second Life residents (an article from an artist who got some numbers/statistical data from Linden on how many L$ transferred out to real Danish crones.
Well, I don’t think that I ever could send any of my customers an invoice in Linden dollars, haha.
Another example of what the media are writing about Second Life:
“Second Life is dangerous – you get virus” (the Quicktime problem, which has nothing to do with Second Life).
Or, new trend in Second Life, all the ladies are having Unicorn-sex and taking care of newborn foal (again something I have never heard of).
Let’s agree that all this is just bad journalism, and all stories goes back to the journalist who writes them.

After Hours
After the jobfair we finished the day with some nice piano-playing by Valter Lowe in “The Black Diamond VIP Lounge”. A good place to network and chill out after a successful day.

The arrangement
It was some busy month before the jobfair.
Meetings with companies, make them interested in the opportunities in virtual worlds, learn and teach them how to use Second Life. Build and design the fair booths, create slideshow to the speakers, scripting all the interactive job advertisement. Hire guides to the “PowerMatch Island” (important with guides who can help and show people around and make sure everything follows the plan). I got the 3 best guides (Johnmartin Larsson, Anili Larsson and Sigfred Rodenberger).
Some of the companies who joined, had stories about the jobfair on their webpages “Meet us in Second Life” and Power-Match offered new users free teaching in Second Life.
Danish engineer schools had also put a notice out on their local intranet about the jobfair.

9 hours before the jobfair
To make sure all were ready for the jobfair, I had called for a 20 minutes meeting in Second Life with all the present companies and guides. Just a short agenda, so we could go through the upcoming jobfair, and informed about what to do in case of crash, greefers etc..
Unfortunately Second Life suddenly restarted my SIM, without any warning (the Island was offline for about 10 minutes). Not a good signal to the companies.
After the short briefing, I annouced that everyone were welcome to stay and get their SL skills updated. We had some funny hours

Thanks to:
Doctor Asp from Wonderful Denmark (helped with building fairboots)
Kaj Bing from Wonderful Denmark (helped with creative building)
Sophie Zhu from Accident Design (helped with the teleporter system)
Pach Voom from in-live.dk (always do great entrepreneurship for Second Life and Power-Match)

Jobfair in Second Life the 30th. October 2007

On the 30th. October we had our first big jobfair in Second Life.

Companies
The following companies participated in the PowerMatch jobfair:
IBM, Saxobank, Grundfos, FLSmidth, TDC, The Danish Ministry of Taxation.

The program
Everybody gathered in the auditorium on the lower deck of the Power-Match globe. After a short welcome and presentation by me, I handed the word to Sisse Siggard Jensen (aka Chenet Shan). Sisse is a Danish professor from Roskilde University and she gave an interesting speech about the future of virtual worlds.

Finally Power-Match parther Doctor Asp from Wonderful Denmark cut the red ribbon and by that the jobfair was officially open.

Several of the attending companies got in contact with promising candidates.

200 people joined the jobfair
The jobfair was announced to last for 2 hours, and after only 1½ hours, we have had more than 200 visitors.