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WoW on a resume: good, bad or indifferent?
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Onijitsu
Ah, found it... and my previous version was completely off, my bad:
Then it came up that they played on the same server. Then it came up that they were actually in the same clan, with the CEO actually a member of my friend's clan. The CEO hired him on the spot: through World of Warcraft, he had seen enough of my friend's leadership skills (combined, of course, with his education) to know he was well-suited for the position. It's an early trend, but...
Too early of a trend, still.
Most employers think negatively about computer gaming. That, it's juvenille, and might distract an employee from their work. (And sometimes, with good justification from previous disciplinary situations with employees)
You might put "Computer Gaming" on your resume, but I emphasize the word, "
might!
" Most employers want to know if you can do the job and do it reasonably to their standards. They may not want to get to know other aspects of your life.
Most of all, as any experienced leader may understand, getting too cozy with the underlings can sometimes cause them to start slacking, and to think that they can get away with it, because they're in with the boss. Regardless, you really don't know how a potential employer will take any excess information you give them. They may even see excess information as a reason to believe you are flighty, distracted, or that you will chase tangents in the workplace, at the expense of performing your core duties.
Unless you know whom you are trying to woo, and if they will see such information in a positive light, it would prolly be best to keep your resume concise and to the point.
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Adamsm
Ah, found it... and my previous version was completely off, my bad:
Then it came up that they played on the same server. Then it came up that they were actually in the same clan, with the CEO actually a member of my friend's clan. The CEO hired him on the spot: through World of Warcraft, he had seen enough of my friend's leadership skills (combined, of course, with his education) to know he was well-suited for the position. It's an early trend, but...
Too early of a trend, still.
Most employers think negatively about computer gaming. That, it's juvenille, and might distract an employee from their work. (And sometimes, with good justification from previous disciplinary situations with employees)
You might put "Computer Gaming" on your resume, but I emphasize the word, "
might!
" Most employers want to know if you can do the job and do it reasonably to their standards. They may not want to get to know other aspects of your life.
Most of all, as any experienced leader may understand, getting too cozy with the underlings can sometimes cause them to start slacking, and to think that they can get away with it, because they're in with the boss. Regardless, you really don't know how a potential employer will take any excess information you give them. They may even see excess information as a reason to believe you are flighty, distracted, or that you will chase tangents in the workplace, at the expense of performing your core duties.
Unless you know whom you are trying to woo, and if they will see such information in a positive light, it would prolly be best to keep your resume concise and to the point.
Heh, aye what I found there was the exception obviously, but it's still interesting and could end up as a point eventually.
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Onijitsu
How about a job interview with Sony Online, or CCP? ;-)
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SongCry
If they don't know what WoW is then its probably not going to help at all. It just shows that you dedicate time to games and might not be a good employee.... as bad as it may seem its the truth
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Cambo
"On Super Mario I saved the princess. That taught me how to respect women"
Most employers would not accept video games as a good source of leadership or responsibility.
I would leave it out, do NOT specify WoW on your resume. You could say that you are "involved in activities outside of work which enable me to exercise leadership, conflict resolution, "
There is greater chance of it hampering your chance of employment than actually leveraging your chance.
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Does it matter if there's a duplicate topic on the forums? No.
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Skadja
Montezuma, some employers really do want an excess of information.
I recently filled out an application for a part time cashiering job at a regional Wal-Mart clone. Not only did they ask for the
entirety
of my last 15 years' work experience, with it being clear that any omission at all (on any question, and of any work or educational experience) would be grounds for all the bad crap they always promise, and which thus includes the half hour a day I spent serving food in a highschool cafeteria at min wage when I was 15 and my family homeless, along with explanations for any period of unemployment of more than 2 weeks. A highschool and college student can rack up a lot of seasonal and academic short-term jobs, but it looks like job hopping. They asked for the name of every educational institution I had ever attended since Junior High, and exactly how many credits I had earned at each of my two colleges. And, of course, they asked for Hobbies. Oh, and my career aims and goals!
For a part-time cashiering job.
Since I was already screwed due to my CS degree, I simply put "computers" and "electronics" along with crap like reading, since at least listing those is somewhat job relevent, and well, they already knew about my degree anyway.
But yeah, I'm not entirely disappointed that they didn't give me a call. That application gave me kind of a bad feeling about things. That's just way too much to be asking of someone applying for that sort of work.
I understand why people are confused about what employers want in the hiring process. Because the employers themselves are muddling that issue. It's bad enough to ask about hobbies in the interview.
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justinc
I have seen people
claim
that they got a job because they had "GM of a WoW guild" on their resume but this is the internet and people lie. I would not try telling a potential employer that I am qualified for the job because I ran a guild on World of Warcraft. It is unprofessional, tacky, largely irrelevant, and unimpressive to most people who actually
play
WoW. How much do you think someone who
doesn't
play WoW is going to care? If I read over an application that had "WoW" anywhere in it my first thought(s) would be "this guy isn't serious" and "cool, he plays a lot of video games." *Trash can*
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