Good professional job, you work, you come home, you spend time with the family, you research for your given profession. Playing games evey night is not a great advertisement
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As a student of economics (future accountant, or at least I hope to be one when I finish my studies) and a freelance graphic designer (mainly focsing on web, logo, cards, banners designs) I can't say it would help at all! In a matter of fact, it would be really funny (read as pointless) to include it.
I can only think what resume would that be...
"...
I have finished my highschool with the highest grades and i'd like to attach my International Mathematical Olympiad prize to it. Besides that, I've of course finished University as one of the best students, not only in my class but in the whole generation. Not to forget that I'm haste capped as a protection paladin meaning I can get my 3 holy powers in less than 4 seconds and Shield of the Righteous almost instantly with my APM (Average Pointless Moves, aka Actions Per Minute) and increase my chance to block by additional 50%, which will of course result in the procs of Avenger's Shield, meaning not only that I can handle the damage very well, but I'm also positioning myself really high on the damage meters aswell as with my 100k Vengeance I'm critting for at least 800k+ with it and since I've used Glyphed of Focused Shield for this Boss fight I'll do 30% more damage with it! Also, here are some resumes from my teachers..."
I got two recent job offers because I said I was a gamer and actively did research in gaming and have found other like minded individuals who helped me further.
I'm a math teacher, but also do research in education and it's a huge thing in education right now. Being a gamer is for once an awesome thing in that field.
Originally posted by Kiljaedenas Really depends on the job. If I was looking to work for a company that makes videogames, then probably yes. If I did that for my resume for my current industry (engineering/IT), my resume would probably get laughed at and tossed, and honestly if I was looking to hire someone in my current industry and they put that on their resume, that resume would get laughed at and tossed.
The CEO of Starbucks would disagree with you, he hired this guy as the chief information officer because he listed that he ran a guild in WoW.
I think the point of a resume is lost on a lot of people, because its to supposed to be a list of previous jobs.
Did you type that our incorrectly?
My iPad and this forum don't play nice together. *it's not supposed...
Honestly I think that CEO had rather limited standards for hiring the guy. If anyone looking to get hired for most if not all of the possible positions in the company I work for put MMO experience on their resume they would literally be a laughing stock. And come on...managing a guild in WoW? That's not even close to as complicated as running a guild in some other MMOs can be, so as laughable as it is to put videogame experience on a non-videogame related resume it isn't even a good example.
Managing people is a skill set.
All your post says is that you're not in a position where you need to hire someone with that skill set, or do a job that requires it yourself.
Being able to show that you have multiple years of managing and organizing for 100-200 individuals is a valuable thing, regardless of the environment. It's not something many people can do, or have experience doing.
Originally posted by Kiljaedenas Really depends on the job. If I was looking to work for a company that makes videogames, then probably yes. If I did that for my resume for my current industry (engineering/IT), my resume would probably get laughed at and tossed, and honestly if I was looking to hire someone in my current industry and they put that on their resume, that resume would get laughed at and tossed.
The CEO of Starbucks would disagree with you, he hired this guy as the chief information officer because he listed that he ran a guild in WoW.
I think the point of a resume is lost on a lot of people, because its to supposed to be a list of previous jobs.
Did you type that our incorrectly?
My iPad and this forum don't play nice together. *it's not supposed...
Honestly I think that CEO had rather limited standards for hiring the guy. If anyone looking to get hired for most if not all of the possible positions in the company I work for put MMO experience on their resume they would literally be a laughing stock. And come on...managing a guild in WoW? That's not even close to as complicated as running a guild in some other MMOs can be, so as laughable as it is to put videogame experience on a non-videogame related resume it isn't even a good example.
Managing people is a skill set.
All your post says is that you're not in a position where you need to hire someone with that skill set, or do a job that requires it yourself.
Being able to show that you have multiple years of managing and organizing for 100-200 individuals is a valuable thing, regardless of the environment. It's not something many people can do, or have experience doing.
There's one key flaw in what you mentioned: Managing.
Real companies manage large numbers of people on complicated, multi-departmental tasks requiring a wide variety of skillsets.
Managing a guild in WoW...you try to manage large numbers of people on rather mundane, repetitive tasks with extremely limited complexity and variety.
IT ISN'T COMPLICATED ENOUGH TO MATTER. At best you might gain experience in motivating people to actually log onto the sodding thing (if you succeed in doing that) and go through the grind treadmill. But precious little else.
Oh, and yes I am in a position where I sometimes have to hire people and coordinate teams. My job makes me deal with hundreds of people on a regular basis from a wide variety of backgrounds. I don't manage all of them myself but I do have to coordinate between them, and properly "speak their language" in a business sense given that upper managers usually can't talk directly to design engineers. I've also managed manufacturing lines with a host of shop floor workers building and testing truck engines.
Originally posted by Kiljaedenas Really depends on the job. If I was looking to work for a company that makes videogames, then probably yes. If I did that for my resume for my current industry (engineering/IT), my resume would probably get laughed at and tossed, and honestly if I was looking to hire someone in my current industry and they put that on their resume, that resume would get laughed at and tossed.
The CEO of Starbucks would disagree with you, he hired this guy as the chief information officer because he listed that he ran a guild in WoW.
I think the point of a resume is lost on a lot of people, because its to supposed to be a list of previous jobs.
Did you type that our incorrectly?
My iPad and this forum don't play nice together. *it's not supposed...
Honestly I think that CEO had rather limited standards for hiring the guy. If anyone looking to get hired for most if not all of the possible positions in the company I work for put MMO experience on their resume they would literally be a laughing stock. And come on...managing a guild in WoW? That's not even close to as complicated as running a guild in some other MMOs can be, so as laughable as it is to put videogame experience on a non-videogame related resume it isn't even a good example.
Managing people is a skill set.
All your post says is that you're not in a position where you need to hire someone with that skill set, or do a job that requires it yourself.
Being able to show that you have multiple years of managing and organizing for 100-200 individuals is a valuable thing, regardless of the environment. It's not something many people can do, or have experience doing.
You are outta your mind, but way to spin. Hell you could get a job with the Obama admin, they could use a few thousand more spin doctors.
You don't put hobbies and interests down in your resume unless it has skills that relates to the job you are applying for, team captain of netball, football yes because it shows you have leadership skills. You would be amazed at the number of rejected resumes that comes through our business because people don't know how to relate and associate previous work based skills and life skills that are requested in job advertisements.
I wouldn't use Starbucks as a great example of an employer for this scenario, not many skills required to serve a coffee now is there? type of people they employ are students on part time hours.
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lol, seriously? xD
As a student of economics (future accountant, or at least I hope to be one when I finish my studies) and a freelance graphic designer (mainly focsing on web, logo, cards, banners designs) I can't say it would help at all! In a matter of fact, it would be really funny (read as pointless) to include it.
I can only think what resume would that be...
"...
I have finished my highschool with the highest grades and i'd like to attach my International Mathematical Olympiad prize to it. Besides that, I've of course finished University as one of the best students, not only in my class but in the whole generation. Not to forget that I'm haste capped as a protection paladin meaning I can get my 3 holy powers in less than 4 seconds and Shield of the Righteous almost instantly with my APM (Average Pointless Moves, aka Actions Per Minute) and increase my chance to block by additional 50%, which will of course result in the procs of Avenger's Shield, meaning not only that I can handle the damage very well, but I'm also positioning myself really high on the damage meters aswell as with my 100k Vengeance I'm critting for at least 800k+ with it and since I've used Glyphed of Focused Shield for this Boss fight I'll do 30% more damage with it! Also, here are some resumes from my teachers..."
I need a girl whose name doesn't end in .JPG
I got two recent job offers because I said I was a gamer and actively did research in gaming and have found other like minded individuals who helped me further.
I'm a math teacher, but also do research in education and it's a huge thing in education right now. Being a gamer is for once an awesome thing in that field.
I review lots of indie games and MMORPGs
Managing people is a skill set.
All your post says is that you're not in a position where you need to hire someone with that skill set, or do a job that requires it yourself.
Being able to show that you have multiple years of managing and organizing for 100-200 individuals is a valuable thing, regardless of the environment. It's not something many people can do, or have experience doing.
There's one key flaw in what you mentioned: Managing.
Real companies manage large numbers of people on complicated, multi-departmental tasks requiring a wide variety of skillsets.
Managing a guild in WoW...you try to manage large numbers of people on rather mundane, repetitive tasks with extremely limited complexity and variety.
IT ISN'T COMPLICATED ENOUGH TO MATTER. At best you might gain experience in motivating people to actually log onto the sodding thing (if you succeed in doing that) and go through the grind treadmill. But precious little else.
Oh, and yes I am in a position where I sometimes have to hire people and coordinate teams. My job makes me deal with hundreds of people on a regular basis from a wide variety of backgrounds. I don't manage all of them myself but I do have to coordinate between them, and properly "speak their language" in a business sense given that upper managers usually can't talk directly to design engineers. I've also managed manufacturing lines with a host of shop floor workers building and testing truck engines.
Where's the any key?
Granted the question is not as silly as it maybe once was.
Now that a college took athletic scholarships from real athletes and gave them to video gamers.
Honestly you gotta think the alumni that contributed the money for those scholarships are not all that thrilled.
You are outta your mind, but way to spin. Hell you could get a job with the Obama admin, they could use a few thousand more spin doctors.
You don't put hobbies and interests down in your resume unless it has skills that relates to the job you are applying for, team captain of netball, football yes because it shows you have leadership skills. You would be amazed at the number of rejected resumes that comes through our business because people don't know how to relate and associate previous work based skills and life skills that are requested in job advertisements.
I wouldn't use Starbucks as a great example of an employer for this scenario, not many skills required to serve a coffee now is there? type of people they employ are students on part time hours.