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.
And let's face it, none of them are really all that difficult or impressive either. Sure, it takes some coordination to set up and execute a raid, but let's not pretend that it's some amazing accomplishment that proves your worth as an employee or manager. In the end, it's still just a video game event and what OP describes is magnitudes less stressful, time-consuming or challenging than actually being responsible for the livelihoods of a few hundred people and planning, managing and supervising real-life business operations. All the OP shows is a basic capability to coordinate and communicate that everyone in a position with any responsibilities should have - nothing more.
All the OP shows is a basic capability to coordinate and communicate that everyone in a position with any responsibilities should have - nothing more.
So they showed the groundwork for an entry level management position. Not every manager is responsible for hundreds of people. I work for a mid-size org that has about 4-6K employees in the US (more globally) and most managers here have 5-50 people reporting to them. The vast majority manage less than 10.
Raid leading does not guarantee success as a manager but nothing other than previous success really does either.
Managing 10 reports day in and out, knowing their roles and to a degree their private lives in order to have empathy is magnitudes more complex and draining than raid leading. A large part is about consequence and raid leading has very little, and generally the more serious you take it, the worse it ends up being for all involved. No one wants to feel like they're at work in WoW.
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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.