Would You Place Your SL Business Experience on Your RL Resume?

well, it helped me get on the MA I just started (which is why I am not around much at the moment - hi everybody!), and I've never had a regular sl job, just curated a performance art event and did a bit of building for someone. I did have rl contact info for both things, though, and the MA is in Interactive Digital Media, so fairly relevant.

short answer, yes

added it as hobby, web development and LSL scripting for the purpose of creativity and self education

when i was in SL for about 5~6 months, i did try to get a real life sl job but that company was like the rest of them, not understanding the platform and thinking to make a quick buck so they pulled their project befor it even started and said "sorry"

nearing my 2 sl years and i can say that the only thing holding me back is my coding, trying to revive my old projects with a rewrite i just today came to the conclusion that it`s faster to delete it all and start from scratch then actually try to rewrite snippets and working back and forth 1000 times instead of right from the start
that inexpirience however does not hit my resume tho

i think it all depends what your doing, making furniture would be totally irrelevant for say secretary job, but scripting does for programming job (sure as hell is dependent on background but shows creativity)
texturing for graphic design jobs as you can show a portofolio of created work

Desmond, if you`d take your accomplishments regarding estate owner, it would look great on your resume, accounting, management, public relation, support etc

It depends. If you are into marketing and developed an innovative advertising system or planned large scale events, yes. If you are now creating high quality 3D designs, yes. Perhaps for project management, yes. Beyond that.... a huge maybe, and probably no.

Oh, and despite my almost complete negativity regarding the (in)advisability of including sl business experience on a cv/resume (unless you want to go work for a spam factory or a slave farm, which is what marketing and staff management here equate to) I have actually encouraged and assisted a talented model maker (no, not a runway wolf like me, one who actually creates models of living environments in rl) successfully to get a job with one of the top architectural practices in Brasil on the basis that her creative and project management skills demonstrably translate from rl into sl and back again.

Pep (From the goodness of my heart too)

It would be dependent upon what job you were applying for. I mean if you were applying for a job at somewhere like Rivers Run Red or ESC then surely your SL experience would be relevant.

Only if the person made tons of RL money as you've said, or had some other real-world applicable skills or contacts. "Worked as a greeter in a club" - no way.

I'd only list something like that if I were one of the few huge designers or sellers in SL. They at the very least are proficient with computer software and they do run a business, the same as people who sell real-world products on a website. It's virtually (heh) the same thing.

I'd also only list if you were the owner, boss, creator, etc., not a model, greeter, dancer or other employee. Sorry but those amount to playing/chatting well.



The federal government? Exsqueeze me? What SL job or skill translates there? I'd say, in that case, err on the side of 'no way.'