"Management consultancy Bain & Co. has opened a recruiting center in the Second Life virtual environment. Earlier this month the firm held an open house in Second Life, at which students attended from Harvard Business School, MIT's Sloan School of Business, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and the Kellog School of Management at Northwestern University."

I heard about this article on Bain Consulting's new recruiting techniques and was absolutely floored.  Are they that desperate for recruits?  As far as I know, if you really wanted the job you'd show up at recruiting events in REAL life.  The consultant that thought of this idea must think he's really clever.  Maybe they should open virtual recruiting centers on World of Warcraft and have recruiters as posed as poker players on Pokerstars as well, I know a bunch of really smart people who play those games who may be interested in a second career in management consulting.

Or maybe they are recruiting in these virtual worlds to create a virtual consulting group that can be outsourced and consult management from their desktops all the way on the other side of the world?