Luxembourg Jobs Fairs

We've seen a number of examples of recruitment companies (mainly, but not exclusively, European) using Second Life as a place to attract potential job-seekers. My Sunday afternoon ramble among the highlands and islands led to the Grand Ducale sim, and as it looked interesting on the map and had a certain ring to it, I swooped in for a look. It is actually one of a trio of sims, the others being the rather more prosaically named Luxembourg Recrutement and Luxembourg Business.

The 3 sims, taken together, provide a large recruitment facility. The first event was actually held at the end of November, 2007, to recruit staff for GAX Technologies. I think this may have been something of a proof of concept, since GAX are (I think) the builders of the site. According to the Working Worlds website, the next fair is on the 28th March, 2008 - though the information on the island itself points towards a fair on 29th May.

I rather liked this place - it is built with a certain cartoon-y style and it manages to inject a degree of light-hearted whimsy into what could otherwise be a rather daunting and po-faced environment. There are one or two places where the prims are not properly aligned, leading to some "jitters" in the textures, but otherwise the build quality is high. There are plenty of teleports to get you around the site too.

I know, I should write more about it - but it's late, and having failed to secure a multi-million lottery win (again!) I need to get to bed so that I can get up and toddle into work tomorrow. Here is a set of pictures that should give you a bit more of the flavour --- I assume the bright orange bit is aimed at recruitment for the Netherlands: