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Currently in my head, and I can't think of a better place to talk about it:
I'm a senior analytics manager for a large telco and I've been doing interviews for new analysts recently. One in particular was decent, and as part of his interview he wanted to talk about experiences he learned from in World of Warcraft.
Now I've played WoW since release, and have been in the top 50 guilds in the world before, so this really struck a chord with me. He spoke about all the theorycrafting that he put into his character to get the most out of it, the calculations etc etc, which I thought was good for an analyst. He also spoke about his time leading the guild, organising everything and dealing with conflict. Again, I totally got this as I did this for many years. In my view he drew out some really good examples from this, as well as from his actual work experience.
Afterwards, my assistance interviewer thought this was all a lot of nonsense and couldn't believe someone would talk about this in an interview. Whereas I actually thought, good on you for trying draw out some other different skills you might not have had exposure to in the workplace.
At this stage, I am most likely going to offer this guy the job. He ticks all the boxes purely from a work experience point anyway. But I am curious to know everyone elses thoughts on talking about these kind of things in interviews. Would you talk about them? As an interviewer would you even entertain them?
I'm a senior analytics manager for a large telco and I've been doing interviews for new analysts recently. One in particular was decent, and as part of his interview he wanted to talk about experiences he learned from in World of Warcraft.
Now I've played WoW since release, and have been in the top 50 guilds in the world before, so this really struck a chord with me. He spoke about all the theorycrafting that he put into his character to get the most out of it, the calculations etc etc, which I thought was good for an analyst. He also spoke about his time leading the guild, organising everything and dealing with conflict. Again, I totally got this as I did this for many years. In my view he drew out some really good examples from this, as well as from his actual work experience.
Afterwards, my assistance interviewer thought this was all a lot of nonsense and couldn't believe someone would talk about this in an interview. Whereas I actually thought, good on you for trying draw out some other different skills you might not have had exposure to in the workplace.
At this stage, I am most likely going to offer this guy the job. He ticks all the boxes purely from a work experience point anyway. But I am curious to know everyone elses thoughts on talking about these kind of things in interviews. Would you talk about them? As an interviewer would you even entertain them?
