What would you do if a recruiter or potential employer invited you to interview in Second Life?

On Oct 4, a USC Business Communication class at the Marshall School will discuss various perspectives in answering this question: What would you do if a recruiter or potential employer invited you to interview in Second Life?

I've been invited to engage the class in a discussion on videoconferencing, videoblogging and online CV's to create awareness of messages and media.

As prior assignment, the students are using these examples and discussion questions for reference:

1. HP Eric Kintz Digital Mindset Blog
“Videoblogging from NYC”
http://h20325.www2.hp.com/blogs/kintz/archive/2007/09/10/4367.html

“Mobile Social Marketing” – How important is Mobile for Social Marketing?
http://h20325.www2.hp.com/blogs/kintz/archive/2007/09/19/4454.html
Winksite and Feed2Mobile

2. TechCrunch: If A Conference Is Held In Second Life, Will Anyone Listen?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/20/if-a-conference-is-held-in-second-life-will-anyone-listen/
BizBlogReview: Is the future of global commerce in virtual worlds?
http://bizblogreview.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-future-of-global-commerce-in-virtual.html

3. The Official Cisco Blog “The Platform” – Alan S. Cohen, VP Enterprise Solutions
“The Next Wave of the Business Internet: The Human Network@Work”
http://blogs.cisco.com/news/2007/09/the_next_wave_of_the_business.html

4. Online CV’s
Colin Rhinesmith
http://colinrhinesmith.com/cv
Nova Commercial - MySpace
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=13754983

5. Tuesday, November 28, 2006
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_diamondgeezer_archive.html#116469686556354886

Discussion Questions:

Videoconferencing:
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages?
2. How can you use the videoconference setup to engage (create rapport) the interviewer more?
3. What unexpected events can happen during a videoconference and how would you deal with them (example: split screens with more than one interviewer)?

Videoblogging:
1. Referring to Eric Kintz’s “Videoblogging from NYC” (1), what are the advantages and disadvantages of using an “interview format” in a videoblog as CV?
2. Referring to Colin Rhinesmith’s online CV with video (4) – do you think this CV works? Why or why not? Do you think this form of CV is the future? What’s your reasoning?
3. If the Nova Commercial serves as a CV, what impressions can it make?

Mobile Social Marketing, the Next Wave, CV’s, and the interview future:
1. After reading “Mobile Social Marketing” (1), TechCrunch and BizBlogReview (2), Cisco Blog (3), and diamondgeezer (5) – What are your thoughts?
2. How do you see your CV’s and interview techniques evolving?
3. What would you do if a recruiter or potential employer invited you to interview in Second Life?