virtual jobs on Second Life

Randstad is the first HR services provider that opened a branch on Second Life. With the opening of a virtual branch, job seekers can also come to Randstad in the virtual world of Second Life.

Candidates get paid in Linden dollars, the official currency of Second Life. The branch also offers real jobs, there are three vacancies at this moment; one as a manager of the 'avatar' (a virtual character on Second Life) of a Dutch law firm and there are two positions at ABN AMRO as the manager of the virtual hostess at ABN (the candidates get paid in real life euros).

With our presence on Second Life, Randstad cooperates with a university in Amsterdam to do research about the influence of virtual worlds on social networks. They will also see if employees in virtual worlds are treated differently than employees are treated in daily life.

View our promotion film on Youtube. If you have an Avatar account (this means you are resident of Second Life), you can visit the Randstad branch: http://slurl.com/secondlife/randstad/50/100/50.

About Second Life: Second Life is a 3-D digital online world, entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 4,441,629 people from around the globe.

A lot of companies have discovered Second Life; besides Randstad, you can find branches of ABN AMRO, Adidas, American Apparal and press agency Reuters. And Duran Duran gives virtual concerts.