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Massively.org published a column suggesting people could put MMO raiding experience on their resumes, triggering the short-circuiting of hundreds of keyboards as HR personnel around the nation all did a collective spit-take with their morning coffee.

Well, maybe it’s not that crazy. Raiding in the old 40-man groups in WoW started with the cat-herding exercise of trying to get forty people in forty different places to all log on and show up on time, resembling more of a human resources nightmare than anything like a game. I mean, I quit WoW when I realized that, but I guess the point still stands.

On the other hand, despite having just spent a good long time job hunting in one of the most tech-savvy parts of the nation, I can’t imagine a recruiter responding to such a resume with anything other than “Oh, that’s interesting,” followed by a tight-lipped smile.

So if you’re willing to take the advice of Cameron Sorden and put WoW raiding on your resume, then you’ve got bigger stones than I do. And if you do go in to an interview with such a resume, you really, really need to write me afterwards to tell me how it turned out.

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