The Step Forward Pavilion presents three different, themed rooms which are marked as follows:

• Transfer to the Western Australian Police
• Open the Door to a Better Life
• For a Rewarding Career Step Forward

They are joined by a foyer with a sign greeting visitors. The entire pavilion has been designed to be low maintenance, while still offering a useful online presence. Actual Police recruiting staff will log into the pavilion during office hours and be on hand to answer questions, and even if you miss them, they are still available to answer messages sent through to them via Second Life's message system. The Pavilion presents a direct, non-threatening, internationally accessible, and 24-hour link to the WA police recruiting service.

Media

Screenshots

Launch video

Download high-quality video: 20MB DivX AVI; 115MB MPEG4

Why Second Life?

The project was conceived not just as a way to give applicants or transfers outside of WA a chance to connect to the service, but also as an entry point into virtual world technology and fresh approaches designed to reach a new generation of possible recruits who are moving away from tradition media like television, radio and newspapers. Second Life has proved incredibly successful at attracting real-world organisations into its online space. Companies including BMW, Calvin Klein, IBM and Reuters have all set up shop in Second Life, as have universities including The University of Queensland, Princeton and Harvard, and countries such as Sweden, Serbia and Macedonia even have embassies in the virtual world.

Getting Started

If you don't have Second Life you can get started here. Signing up is free and only takes a couple of minutes. If the download does start at the end of sign-up you can grab the latest files here: Windows | Mac | Linux (beta)

Minimum Requirements

The requirements vary between operating systems but the bare minimum is a broadband Internet connection, a 800MHz PIII (or 1GHz G4) or better, 512MB RAM, and NVIDIA GeForce 2, ATI Radeon 8500 or Intel 945 chipset. The full requirements can be found here.

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