Recruitment & employer branding
10 questions
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They walk up to each other. Moving your avatar next to someone opens a conversation in video, audio and text, and moving away ends it. There is no room to book, no link to send and no waiting room, which is what lets a recruiter see twenty candidates in an afternoon instead of running twenty scheduled calls.
How to make it happen on your map
- Give each recruiter a desk or a booth, so candidates know where to find them and can see whether someone is already there.
- Lock the conversation once the interview starts, so a second candidate cannot walk in. You can also limit the recruiter’s area to two people: the recruiter and the candidate being interviewed.
- Put an open area near the entrance: the queue forms there rather than in a lobby you have to moderate.
- Ask recruiters to set their status to busy between interviews; it tells candidates not to approach.
- Use the users’ list to find a specific person on the map. To bring a candidate to a room with you, ask them to follow you once they are already in the conversation.
For a panel or a group presentation, use a meeting room area: everyone inside it joins the same call.
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Build a coffee room: an ordinary area of your map, away from the recruiter desks, where conversations open by proximity like anywhere else. Candidates waiting for their turn talk to each other instead of staring at a queue, and that is usually where the event stops feeling like a call centre.
What makes one work
- Put it next to the waiting area, not in a corner nobody walks past.
- Keep it small: several little seating areas produce more conversation than one big room.
- Give people something to talk about: a screen with the agenda, a board with the companies present, a photo wall.
- Leave it unlocked and untagged so anyone can join a group.
- Add a silent zone somewhere else for candidates who want to prepare in peace. A room where nobody can escape the conversation empties fast.
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Share your screen. Screen sharing works in any conversation, a bubble or a meeting room alike, so a candidate can walk a recruiter through a portfolio live. Several people can share at once, which is what you need when a panel compares two documents.
For anything confidential, lock the conversation before you share, so nobody walks in while it is on screen.
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Lock the bubble. Any conversation in WorkAdventure has a padlock, and once it is on, nobody else can join by walking up. The interview carries on without interruptions, and a candidate waiting nearby is not dropped into someone else’s conversation.
The three levels, from lightest to strictest
- Lock the bubble. One click, in the conversation itself. Right for a quick 1:1 in an open area.
- Use a meeting room area for a longer or larger interview. It is a defined place on the map.
- Limit the area to two people. Set a maximum number of participants on the interview area: at 2, the recruiter and the candidate are inside, and nobody else can enter while they are both there. Right for a desk or a booth where candidates come one at a time.
A silent zone is a different tool: it stops conversations starting at all, which is what you want for a waiting area or a preparation room, not for the interview itself.
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Yes, on a paid plan, and at two levels.
White label replaces the platform’s identity with yours: your logo, your colours, your own domain name, your favicon and meta tags, and your own contact page in the menu. Candidates arrive at your careers space, not at a supplier’s product, and the link you publish is on your domain. The feature is currently in beta.
A custom map goes further: our designers reproduce your offices, your campus or a world of your own, so the space looks like the company rather than a generic office template. Contact us to scope one. If you have less time, start from one of the ready-to-use templates and change the layout, the rooms and the objects in the built-in map editor, then put your logo on the walls.
For an employer-branding event, one additional touch: upload your own WOKA skins so recruiters wear the company’s colours and candidates can tell staff apart at a glance.
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Everything here is in the space itself, so you are not running the event from a spreadsheet on the side.
See who is here. The users’ list shows everyone connected and where they are on the map, and you can walk to any of them in a click. It is how you find a recruiter who has gone missing. It also shows you at a glance that a booth has nobody at it.
Lead people to the right place. Ask someone already in your conversation to follow you, and they walk with you rather than being talked through a route. Recruiters can also set their own status, available, busy or do not disturb, which tells candidates who can be approached.
Talk to everyone at once (paid plans). Global messages, in text or audio, reach one map or all of them: the way to open the event, call a session or announce the last round.
Control who gets in (paid plans). Require authentication so people must sign in, turn off self-registration so only the people you have added can enter, and use tags to decide which areas each of them reaches. Members can also receive an auto login token, a personal connection link that signs them in automatically, which is the convenience you want for an event where people connect only once.
Plan it. A WorkAdventure room can be the meeting location in Google Calendar, so an invitation opens the right room.
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If your microphone changes every time you join your virtual office, the issue usually comes from the browser or the system automatically selecting another available audio device.
On Mac, this often happens when the iPhone is detected as an external microphone. Chrome may then treat it as the default device and use it instead of the Mac’s built-in microphone.
To fix this, open Chrome and go to Settings, Privacy and security, Site settings, then Microphone. In this section, explicitly select your Mac’s internal microphone, such as Internal Microphone or MacBook Microphone.
It is also recommended to check the setting on the macOS side by going to System Settings, then Sound, then Input. The built-in microphone should also be set as the main input source.
If the wrong microphone is still being used, completely quit Chrome, restart the browser, then reconnect to your virtual office. This often helps reset the audio device detection.
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This behavior is usually related to the Apple ecosystem. When an iPhone is close to the Mac and recognized as an available device, it may appear in Chrome as a usable audio source. The browser may then select it automatically, even if it is not the desired device.
In this case, you should check both Chrome settings and Mac settings. You can also choose to set your default microphone directly in WorkAdventure. It will be activated whenever available for each of your sessions. To do this, go to the microphone settings, click the chevron, and set your default microphone.
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If the selected camera is not always the right one when you join your virtual office, Chrome is probably detecting several available cameras and automatically choosing the one it considers to be the priority device.
This can happen on Mac when the iPhone is offered as a camera in addition to the computer’s built-in camera. The browser may then use the wrong video source when a session starts.
To fix this, open Chrome and go to Settings, Privacy and security, Site settings, then Camera. Then select your Mac’s built-in camera as the default camera.
Once this change has been made, it is best to completely close the tab or the browser, then reconnect to your virtual office.
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When multiple video devices are available, Chrome may reuse the last device used or automatically select a new one. This behavior can vary from one session to another, especially if an iPhone, an external webcam, or a monitor with a built-in camera is detected.
The best solution is to explicitly select the correct camera in Chrome settings and check the site-specific permissions as well. To do this, click the icon to the left of your virtual office URL and make sure camera access is allowed.
You can also choose to set your default camera directly in WorkAdventure. It will be activated whenever available for each of your sessions. To do this, go to the camera settings, click the chevron, and set your default camera.
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