网游玩的好，竟还能把工作找？！

20160519ou 一中两外锵锵三人行 今日话题 - 城会玩啊： 网游玩的好，竟还能把工作找？！ 近日，在江苏的某场招聘会上， 会打网游竟成为了应聘者的一个加分项。 Lincoln: Now video games have long been seen as the past time of children or man-children or women. The idea is that if you’re still playing video games maybe you don’t necessarily have everything together in your life. In recent times there has been competitive gaming and games have become some of the biggest selling entertainment titles in the world, and it seems now that I might even help you get a job. Yoyo: At a recent job fair, some prospective employees were surprised to learn that some employers would also value their online gaming skills. This is at a job fair in China’s Eastern coastal Jiangsu province. With 5000 job seekers and 200 companies joining the fair, one job-seeker said that he was shocked when he was asked if he plays ‘League of Legends’, an online game that is quite popular in China. He told the employers that he plays in a server that hosts the most players that have already been part of the company. Lincoln: Now this is an interesting thing here. Now I’m starting to think that doesn’t actually have much to do with what video games adds to you in terms of your personal skills, what it does add to is an ability to network well. So you see what I mean here. It’s not that he’s a more employable person because he was on this gaming server, it’s because when he was on this gaming server, he was able to meet people who were in the company in the first place. I think that’s quite interesting. I’m in my twenties now so a lot of the people my age also grew up playing video games. You can make some really good contacts playing video games [Nick: Really?] Yeah. These are people who are in business or whatever, and if you engage on a platform like that you can make some good contacts. So from sense I can see the merit. I still can’t see how that would make you more employable. It used to be golf or tennis, maybe now it’s video games. Yoyo: Maybe for this game it depends on forming a team, and that means you need to have the ability to co-ordinate a team and for problem-solving. Maybe that is the part new employers are interested in. Lincoln: I disagree. I think this is purely a case of this being one of those ‘who-you-know’ things. We always see these articles about what makes someone hire-able. Most of the time people have the minimum requirements of the job, but the one thing that you can’t really write down is this thing called ‘fit’. Will someone fit into the office, or the team or the team culture? Someone can be very good at their job, but if they don’t fit companies find that they run into trouble. You always find these weird little metrics on the side, and I suppose video games can be as good an indicator as anything else.