Employers screening World of Warcraft players?


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I'm an avid WoW player. I play this game more than I should. I would absolutely love to play less but it grabs you by the balls and doesnt let go. Anyway I dont see a problem with putting WoW on an application if you're a guild leader of a endgame guild, otherwise I wouldnt bother. Being a leader of a guild shows leadership skills and those skills can transfer from online into real life. Leading 40 random people to kill a boss isnt that easy.

Now about this WoW affecting real life thing. My guild's main tank is a Lawyer. He's bloody rich, has a hot wife, and a life yet still raids every night. He doesnt let WoW get in the way of the real world. My guild's GM is in University of Michigan to become a Lawyer yet he still raids everyday and stuff. MMORPG's arent your typical video game. You gotta have self control.

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More than anything, I think that if employers are allowed to get away with screening for WoW players, it's going to begin a disturbing trend. They may just be screening for WoW players today, but who's to say that they won't try screening for Counter-Strike players tomorrow? Or maybe they'll just start screening for people who own a game console. It's true that WoW is far more addictive than the average game, but do you really think that the vast majority of these recruiters care about that? I still know people who believe that video games are evil, and they chastise me for my hobby with every chance that they get. These are the kinds of people who won't simply stop at WoW, they'll want to know if potential employees play any games at all.

On the bright side, I don't think that this is going to go far. Future generations are going to be far more knowledgeable regarding gaming, and recruiters will come to realize that there are plenty of casual WoW players (this thread is evidence enough) in the world who don't allow the game to have an adverse effect on their work performance.

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The whole WoW addiction thing is so tired, as we have covered before if you are that easily addicted to something please stay away from drugs, alcohol, porn, religion, television, fast food, etc... As for employers screening for this kind of thing, it's likely illegal on some level to rule out job candidates based on a perfectly legal outside of work interest. I wouldn't want to work any place that has that much interest in what I do outside their doors. I've played MMOs on and off for years, it's all about personal control, nothing more. And it doesn't belong on your job application, period.

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Anyway I dont see a problem with putting WoW on an application if you're a guild leader of a endgame guild, otherwise I wouldnt bother. Being a leader of a guild shows leadership skills and those skills can transfer from online into real life. Leading 40 random people to kill a boss isnt that easy.

yelling at people on a computer game and trying to organise them over the internet just by your voice != good leadership skills in real life

you got 40 people in a game playing together if they are playing properly of course there gonna listen to the 1 person in charge or they can leave the guild that doesn't mean you have good leadership skills its just not going to be the same as in a work place

in real life you have to deal with the actual person your personality comes into light and if someone doesn't like your personality there not going to listen to you its gonna be alot tougher

...hmm didn't come out as clear as i was hoping it to be :p

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I understand the company's point of view but then they could say as well that they don't want to hire smokers because they will make more breaks than someone who doesn't smoke, just as an example.

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