The very first Amazon Job Fair in Second Life will take place on Tuesday July 14th and will run from 6 AM to Midnight, PST.
This free event is a unique opportunity for candidates to have direct access to hiring managers and recruiters from around the world. Amazon is looking for all levels of technical and non-technical candidates – from hands-on engineers to program managers and game-changing principal architects. Visit our
career site to see the open positions and then make plans to join us in-world.
We'll be doing first-round virtual interviews (the equivalent of a phone screen) for real-world jobs.
The Job Fair will take place on the Amazon Developers 2 island. You will need to create an avatar and then download the client in order to attend. You may also want to spend some time with the Second Life Quickstart Guide a day or so before the fair.
We'll be giving away some cool virtual goods including Amazon.com T-Shirts, Door Desks, and a high-performance aircraft. The island is open now so feel free to stop by and take a look around. We have a dog-friendly environment so don't be surprised if you see a pixelated puppy or two wandering around.
As you may have noted above, the Second Life client and the Quickstart guide are both served up from Amazon S3. The Snowglobe version of the Second Life client downloads its map tiles from S3 and the Second Life Map uses a combination of Amazon CloudFront and S3.
Decisions at Amazon are always driven by data, so I built a metrics and statistics package in anticipation of the event. A number of sensors use code written in LSL to relay events (via HTTP) to an Amazon EC2 server. There, some PHP code picks up the raw data and stores it in a set of Amazon SimpleDB domains for analysis. I plan to write an article about this in the near future, so stay tuned.
I hope to see you there. My avatar's name is Jeffronius Batra.
-- Jeff;
PS - Yes, that is an Altair 8800 on my door desk! I actually bought, assembled, and programmed one of these in 1976 (yes, I am that old).
This is really great! Amazon in Second Life : ) Sounds very interesting as I live in Seattle, Washington. I am waiting for the 1,200 sim Amazon shopping experience to open in Second Life! See you there on July 14, SL Avatar Name Dell Wilberg
Posted by: Dell Wilberg - Avatar Name | July 08, 2009 at 01:58 PM
Jeff,
I am looking forward to an article on the metrics of the event.
Is this really Amazon's first job fair. I wrote about an Amazon Europe Fair in 2008: http://recruit2ndlife.blogspot.com/2008/07/getting-hired-by-amazon.html
Posted by: David | July 10, 2009 at 04:00 AM
Your 'Stop By' link is missing the h in http..
Hope to stop in Tuesday.
- Gary SL:Blank Cleanslate
Posted by: gary chernega | July 11, 2009 at 07:23 AM
Jeff,
I hope you still own the Altair.
Curiously, when I approached AWS I felt a bit the same as when watching the front panel's blinking lights.
Why nobody develops a front panel for AWS? :)
Posted by: Gabriele Bozzi | July 11, 2009 at 03:21 PM
This is a great idea! Hope it's a success!
However, I am not able to submit my resume (note) into the mailbox that's kept over there. Is it locked so that people can submit only tomorrow?
Thank you.
Posted by: Karthz | July 13, 2009 at 01:04 PM
I have installed the second life software and created my account. I am not able to login from the DBM career center in kirkland, WA. Troubleshooting steps would be appreciated!
Joe.f.hanna@live.com
Posted by: Joe Hanna | July 14, 2009 at 08:41 AM
Actually, I won't be there. All your job postings require degrees, which the smartest people do not have. Good Day.
- Gary:Blank Cleanslate
Posted by: Gary | July 14, 2009 at 03:37 PM
Could not resolve driver problems with Dell/Vista and second life so I uninstalled.
Posted by: Paul Hanrahan | July 14, 2009 at 04:32 PM
Jeff,
Hope the fair goes well - look forward to reading feedback on it. I'll be sending this page to clients who are thinking about using SL for this sort of thing - should encourage them!
Posted by: Pauline Randall (aka Liz Ferlinghetti in SL) | July 15, 2009 at 02:00 AM
Hi Jeff, I had fun exploring the island, falling through the map several times and finding the secret control room under the river! Not sure if you need an OPS guy with a testing background, but I submitted my resume anyway. :-) Thanks for the fun career expo!
Gerald
http://www.GeraldNicks.com
Posted by: Gerald Nicks | July 15, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Hi Jeff,
Will you have an upcoming post on some of the
metrics from this event such as # of attendees,
# phone screenings planned, ROI ect.
Thanks,
David
Posted by: David D'Angelo | July 29, 2009 at 06:03 AM