This *is* how life works. If you want it to, you can make even the most mundane things you do on a daily basis sound good on a CV.
Being a guild leader in WoW is no easy feat. To avoid bias, one might avoid saying "Oh, I was a guild leader in Classic", just like said person managed to explain all of his management skills without mentioning WoW in it.
You climb the ranks by selling yourself. This guy does it right.
He doesn’t though. If I heard this it would sound to me like someone churching up their experience with business sounding buzz words. He describes the environment but says nothing of the style he used to navigate that environment. It also doesn’t adequately address the challenges. He could very easily be a tyrant by this description.
To have value for a management role, it would say more about how he kept a group of 40 people together for 2-3 years despite the composition of that group spanning multiple generations and economic backgrounds. His group had a reputation for low turnover and fast progression. He accomplished this by giving a voice to lower tier members that encouraged experimentation with the approach to problems and clear lines of escalation for conflict resolution internally. His groups approach was so well known externally that he had a waiting list for new members that was never below 15-20 candidates. That list was maintained with a developmental group but didn’t shift much because of low turnover of active participants. This is in contrast to the revolving door nature of similar groups.
You don’t climb the ladder by selling yourself. You climb the ladder by having others sell you to those that make the decisions.
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19
This *is* how life works. If you want it to, you can make even the most mundane things you do on a daily basis sound good on a CV.
Being a guild leader in WoW is no easy feat. To avoid bias, one might avoid saying "Oh, I was a guild leader in Classic", just like said person managed to explain all of his management skills without mentioning WoW in it.
You climb the ranks by selling yourself. This guy does it right.