All right then, picture this if you will. A kid pulls 14 hour days selling his loot from WoW or FFXI or even Runescape on eBay, and uses some of that time to move and shake on Second Life, and winds up making more in a month than his parents do in a quarter. Is he an addict? These "addicts" have remarkable skills of data retention and networking, and so many other skills, and if and when they find a way to apply them, they would shine.
That's why I say that (and I don't know the terminology, I don't really play that many games outside of 1 player console games) significant achievements should be applicable on resumes! Managing a guild? What invaluable management experience! Manage to grind a skill to max with a group of people? Put them in HR! Do they mod, thinking outside the box? That opens up a whole new realm of job opportunities. Hell, they all do. Don't make a clinic for gamer addicts, make a job center that can gauge their skills and show them fields that they could excel in. Most of the time, even they don't realise what skills they posess.
Information overload can make people introverted to fantastic degrees and believe you me, introversion is very hard to overcome, and the feeling of always having someting to do is hard to find irl when this is your life. Just imagine this large group of people profiteering online and succeeding at their jobs offline, because they could equate their skills to careers.
Still, for the time, even impressive achievements don't count on resumes, even if they require feats of skill and communication. Then again, I might just be a damn fool.
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All right then, picture this if you will. A kid pulls 14 hour days selling his loot from WoW or FFXI or even Runescape on eBay, and uses some of that time to move and shake on Second Life, and winds up making more in a month than his parents do in a quarter. Is he an addict? These "addicts" have remarkable skills of data retention and networking, and so many other skills, and if and when they find a way to apply them, they would shine.
That's why I say that (and I don't know the terminology, I don't really play that many games outside of 1 player console games) significant achievements should be applicable on resumes! Managing a guild? What invaluable management experience! Manage to grind a skill to max with a group of people? Put them in HR! Do they mod, thinking outside the box? That opens up a whole new realm of job opportunities. Hell, they all do. Don't make a clinic for gamer addicts, make a job center that can gauge their skills and show them fields that they could excel in. Most of the time, even they don't realise what skills they posess.
Information overload can make people introverted to fantastic degrees and believe you me, introversion is very hard to overcome, and the feeling of always having someting to do is hard to find irl when this is your life. Just imagine this large group of people profiteering online and succeeding at their jobs offline, because they could equate their skills to careers.
Still, for the time, even impressive achievements don't count on resumes, even if they require feats of skill and communication. Then again, I might just be a damn fool.