Tech Paladin

The question of whether World of Warcraft is an acceptable topic during a job interview or element on a resumé comes up every now and then, but I’ve never understood why this was even a debate at all. The arguments tend to gel around the fact that WoW involves, like, a lot of time and stuff, and like, you have to, like, not hate on your guildmates!

I think this is ridiculous. World of Warcraft does not have a monopoly on the concept of being a non-work-related hobby that builds skills and demonstrates committment. Gardening, stamp collecting, hot-rod building, quilting, playing tabletop role-playing games, target shooting — these activities all require a great deal of comittment to become any good at as well as some financial sacrifices, and many of them have strong interpersonal and social components as well. But would you put any of them on your resumé unless they happened to be related to the job you were applying for? Of course not. So what attributes make World of Warcraft any different? None, I say!

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