Recruiting it professionals in a virtual world

PACIS 2008 - 12th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Leveraging ICT for Resilient Organizations and Sustainable Growth in the Asia Pacific Region

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Laumer, Sven ^a   Eckhardt, Andreas ^b   Weitzel, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

IT professionals; Recruitment; Second life; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

GERMANY; IT PROFESSIONAL; JOBSEEKERS; LABOR MARKETS; RECRUITMENT; SECOND LIFE; TRANSIENT PROBLEMS; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; VIRTUAL WORLDS; VITAL SOURCES; WEB 2.0;

EMPLOYMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84855592244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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