Is putting that you were a raid leader in world of Warcraft on a resume a meme...

Is putting that you were a raid leader in world of Warcraft on a resume a meme? People tell me they did that to show they have leading experience and stuff.

depends on the position, those last 5/10 years the gaming meme payed off in job interviews
if u'r gonna be a fucking baker who gives a fuck

I have some Nordstrom shares I will sell you.

I chuckled.

If your guild managed Realm first (or even close to it) on heroic or mythic (and explaining the significance of a realm first, ie: thousands of other guilds competing) I bet they would understand that you did well

if anyone would being that shit up on an interview with me i would instantly think:
"oh hey an other wot retard that will pretend to work and play mmo all day no thanks goodbye"

we had these fuckers from time to time some even stayed in late night playing on the company net because it was better than his home net.

Doing work means doing team work. It doesn't matter if it's in a soccer game, on a board game, in Molten Core or in someone's yard. It's all work that needs to be done and your ability to be successful is requisite on your skill in working with others. If you have a personal experience that taught you something about how to better function in the work place, then you can use that as leverage in your pursuit for a job. The details surrounding that job experience don't matter in the slightest, what really matters is how you can express that experience and why it's relevant to the job.

That said, putting that on your resume means you should be taking a few things into consideration: you're going to need to describe why the experience is relevant (teamwork, responsibility, success), you're going to need to explain how what you did was novel or interesting (my raid beat naxxramas when only 2% of the 10+ million players could even give it a shot) and you need to make sure they know it was not done in a professional capacity (unless you were actually being paid).

Phrase it so it sounds like you left your (mom's) basement more than thrice this decade and you might have a chance.

It's a direct leap from leading 30 disorganized neckbeards to managing a wendys staffed by drug addicts.

I say go for it.

i wouldn't go as far as saying which game it was. just use bullshit language about organizing events and leading X number of people in various activities, and that you were committed for Y number of years to an active team of hobbyists. if the interview gets to that point and you can read that the guy you're talking to might know something about video games, then you can mention WoW, but otherwise you'd just say it's an online game that you became very accomplished at in terms of the social experience and the technical challenges/puzzles or whatever.

all my interviewers were stupidly impressed that i played soccer for 10 years so im sure a lot of things can make you seem interesting if you write them down, but being interesting doesn't mean you're qualified. but yeah language is hugely important depending on the culture. if you're going to be a tech support geek then go for all the autism you can put on paper. if you want to be a business analyst or a scientist then you have to be much more careful.