MyCareer.com.au Head Hunter television commercial

Mycareer – Playing Games

Okay, so MyCareer has this new promotion for Headhunter. Deal is, you set up a store and earn money for the business by “recruiting” employees to your store – kinda like a virtual popularity contest. The shopkeeper earning the most money at the end of the day gets “a trophy of the character”. Woot. Woot. I think, and I’m not really certain although I’ve read the competition outline a coupla times now, that when you register you go into the draw to win fifty grand.

Considering the hiding I’ve given MyCareer lately, I reckon if they pull my name out of the barrel, they’ll look around to see who was watching, pretend to cough, and poke the bit of paper with my name on it into their mouth. Then they’ll redraw.

The prospect of devoting a good part of my day setting up my shop, and sending pathetic emails to my friends and family, asking for virtual support in this enterprise isn’t exactly compensated by the prospect of winning a trophy of my avatar (check him out, he’s the cruddy old guy behind the counter in my “shop” – the one who looks a bit bored, kinda like he’d rather shoot himself then deal with yet another complaint about the economic crisis). And it’s not as though I’m beyond having a muck around in my virtual universe. It’s just, well, if I’m gonna enter a competition, I don’t want it to be like some kinda high maintenance friend who’s just, like, take, take, take – and very little give-back.

And isn’t it slightly ironic that the results for this are published in The Australian – a News publication? I’m not holding my breath about winning…