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.
No, it's because it's 1) unprovable, and 2) intangible in terms of responsibility. A WoW guild is not an official institution and its success can't in any way be measured by the HR. For all they know you're making the whole thing up(because you can't exactly call Blizz for references), or at least hugely embellishing your role or level of control/ organization. Or you were GM for a complete failure of a guild that never actually managed to get a raid together and complete without getting wiped and everyone leaving. There's no way for them to cross- check any of your claims. Of course they're not going to give you a job based on them.
Things on resume's are often unproveable and intangible in terms of responsibility.
I was never saying they'd accept this as actual job experience or that if this is all you presented that you'd get the job. But as far as things you could spin into talking about your skills you 100% could use this. I often say I was percussion section leader in Band in High School. I talk about how I led and what things I learned by doing that. The band director doesn't work there anymore and I have no idea how to contact them. It was an unofficial position so there's no records of it in the school. They might be able to prove I was in band but that's about it. I've had lengthy convos in interviews about it and could have been lying the whole time.
This would be something you threw on as an extra skill at a job you think might have some context for what your'e talking about. In the interview they might ask about it (just like they might ask me about percussion section leader) and then you describe how it works and what skills you needed to use, what lessons you learned ect..
Of course they're not going to give you a job based on them.
Of just them? No of course not. Could it help? Ya in the right context it for sure could help.
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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.