| AUCKLAND: An Auckland recruitment firm has hit upon a novel idea for recruiting data entry positions - by recruiting problem gamblers. The in-demand rolls are notoriously difficult to fill as few people would be willing to perform the mind-numbingly boring work for the miserable pay rates offered. ![]() An unused poker machine at Sky City. “We were having problems recruiting data entry staff for a credit card campaign which one of New Zealand's major Australian banks was going to market with,” stated Adrian Wills, the analyst at Opaque Recruitment who came up with the concept. “We had no luck with traditional methods, so we started thinking outside the box; ‘Who likes to mindlessly stare at a screen all day, while clicking a random series of buttons?’ We were down to Fred’s Sports Bar in a flash and had filled the required roles in the first hour.”
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| Problem Gamblers recruited for Data Entry work. |
Friday, 04 May 2007 06:03





