If you are looking for a job and yet are a World of Warcraft player, your best bet to get a job is to hide this information from employers completely. Silicon Alley Insider is reporting via F13.net that one job seeker mentioned WoW to a recruiter, who asked him to keep his mouth shut on this issue:

I met with a recruiter recently (online media industry) and in conversation I happened to mention I’d spent way too much time in the early 2000s playing online games…

He replied that employers specifically instruct him not to send them World of Warcraft players. He said there is a belief that WoW players cannot give 100% because their focus is elsewhere, their sleeping patterns are often not great, etc. I mentioned that some people have written about MMOG leadership experience as a career positive or a way to learn project management skills, and he shook his head. He has been specifically asked to avoid WoW players.

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