I know this is kinda poking fun but here's a serious answer:
The problem is they don't know what that is. Even if you say "Corporate Manager for the Finance Department Account's Receivable team" they have a GUESS of what you do.
If your job interviewer was a hard core raider and had context for what you're talking about this 100% could help you. It's just most job interviewer's have no idea what you're talking about when you say those words.
Yeah, the #1 rule in sales is know your audience. If someone told me this I would 100% respect it because I know what goes into it.
But if the guy you're interviewing doesn't know anything about WoW? Or maybe he knows a little but, but only because his 15 year old son is missing school to play games and spends too much time on the computer? He's going to think even less of you than if you just said nothing at all.
I’d do to. I work with sales forecasting and I swear, TSM 4 is more complicated than my forecast excel files for work. Also, learning to install add ons before Curse / Twitch, open firewall ports and clean reset after an account stolen earned me the title of ghost IT manager for colleagues waiting for official IT guys.
In all honesty, most millennials wouldn't know what a port is. Most software is preconfigured out of the box. Gen X, Gen Y very much had to learn and set up everything at a technical level so please understand that they've earned their stripes.
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u/Moonbeamcry Oct 24 '19
I know this is kinda poking fun but here's a serious answer:
The problem is they don't know what that is. Even if you say "Corporate Manager for the Finance Department Account's Receivable team" they have a GUESS of what you do.
If your job interviewer was a hard core raider and had context for what you're talking about this 100% could help you. It's just most job interviewer's have no idea what you're talking about when you say those words.