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Last Week on Massively: WoW-related stories
WoW.com —
... Employers screening WoW players during recruitment? Would you consider your MMO-gaming habits to be detrimental to your performance as an employee? Lucky for us, we here at Massively ...
WoW Player? No job for you!
The Common Sense Gamer —
... Once again, WoW seems to be the whipping boy of everything from poor education to the overall mortality rate of the planet…and now, it could be a reason you don’t get hired: ...
The joys of discrimination
Epic Slant - MMO Design and Guild Leadership —
The joys of discrimination I picked up on this article today after lunch about a company avoiding the hire of WoW players . It appears as if their argument for this is that these applications will all have “irregular sleep patterns” and will be “unable to keep their mind focused on work.” Really? As far as I’m concerned that just described every human being I’ve ever met. Any entertainment activity could lead to both of those issues. I don’t see how WoW is anymore predisposed than television, family issues, dating, bowling or professional synchronize goose kicking (PSGK). Then ...
Do WoW players make bad employees?
WoW.com —
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, News items William Dobson over at our sister site Massively.com picked up this story earlier today. A poster on the f13 forums revealed that a corporate recruiter claimed they'd been given specific instructions to not consider World of Warcraft players for jobs. And we're not talking here about people actively playing WoW at work -- just whether the person plays the MMO at all. The theory behind using WoW play as a disqualifier is that WoW ...
Know Your WoW Code
The Ancient Gaming Noob —
... have to, if only for the sake of clarity.
I’ll be looking for an “EVE Code” somewhere in the blog pack, if it does not exist already.
What other game could use a code? Maybe a meta code to cover all MMOs?
Of course, once complete, I have the same problem with such codes as I do with forum signatures: Where should I use them? I don’t actually post on forums much these days.
I do know that I won’t be sticking this code in my resume, that’s for sure.
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