EVE General Discussion

I also point to this again, even thought it's over five years old now. IBM gaming and Leadership Report - Studying management practices in online games.

The qualities you have listed above, are the ideal qualities for someone considering a career in Banking and Financial Services.

this. unless of course when u r applying for CCP or similar gaming companies

It is worth noting that it is still on my C.V.

I've run an agency that sells standings for four years. It has had (it fluctuates because it operates like a real-world agency) around 150 people involved at the peak.

I maintain accounts, manage clients, bill people, pay people, process invoices, produce spreadsheets and deal with basically everything else imaginable from managing timezone differences between a client who wants standing in Australia and a mission runner who lives in Belgium to dealing with non-English speaking clients who desperately want something I don't understand.

The link to my business is in my forum signature so if you're reading this feel free to go and check it out - you'll see my record is overwhelmingly positive.

When I was applying for recruitment consultant positions inside an agency I listed this experience as "Creation and management of an approximately 150 staff operation within an online simulated microeconomy owned by Crowd Control Productions. This experience saw me create a job agency from the ground up, advertise, recruit employees, manage staff inflow/outflow, process invoices, manage accounts, act as first point of contact for the organization, manage international timezone differences between clients and potential employees and maintain two email lists with information for clients/employees."

This did in fact get me a job interview - my C.V. ended up on the desk of the head of a company in London and I was invited to an interview there.

That aside - I don't list this experience anywhere else, even as a hobby, nor would I put it on a C.V. for anything else. But for recruitment positions what I do in Eve is pretty much exactly analogous.

We once had a guest Speaker at a Company Event that claimed that games have superpowers.

The session was great and actually had some interesting twists in it. The way the Speaker sold it, i would not mind putting it on my CV. There are definitely some skills that can be thought by plaing MMO's.

But on the other Hand i am a Little bit odd when it Comes to CV's and interviews... One of my favorite interview questions is "What is your best trait?" (Which is almost always asked... My stock answer to this one is "I am lazy" (And yes, I -DO- have a Job...)

No..... just no.

The only instance i can think of it being acceptable would be for a job in the games industry, or for an employer that you know plays EvE. Otherwise, you're setting yourself up for failure.

No you don't put Eve Online on a CV.

Instead, pretend your eve experiences are real, and that you worked for an obscure company in another part of the country that is very difficult to contact, and put that on your cv. When you are asked questions during your interview you can relay your experiences within eve with convincing detail and the confidence of someone who hasn't just made it all up, or exaggerated their role at a previous company.

See i put just "EVE" on my CV as a hobbie, and it has got me two jobs in 5 years, mainly on one because they used that as a topic for me to "train" other people with as the job I applied for required me to supervise and they wanted to see if I could educate a room full of people about something no-one but me knew about. 2 people went home and started playing it long term.

and the second time it was brought up in an interview as a "what is EVE?" The manager loved the idea so much that he subscribed and we both started playing together "not at work after hours... honest >_>"

I think anything on your CV can be used positively so long as you can apply it to a real world scenario. Eve allows us to play with stock markets, buy and trade goods and form alliances with people generally speaking we cant actually stand for the better of both organisations.

It teaches us teamwork and trust, betrayal and despair and all of these leave small markers on our personalities however you want to decorate that truth.

In game I will shelter you if I can and help you if only you would ask. I never ignore a chat and am more than happy to work as a team but I am easily capable of working solo. I can recognise a wolf in sheeps clothing and hide my own claws pretty well.

All of this using our much loved internet space ships, my grammars awful my spelling worse and I'm a manager at a roofing company - hell im on break right now.

But if my boss asks it of me I will stay for those extra 2-3 hours to help out, I buy the lunches in our office and it is me who offers those under me tea or clears our bins when there full. I train the new people and I keep an eye on health and safety and Law. Why? Because That's who I am. I bring the spare ammo to an engagement I fly ahead or play tackle. and I distract the interceptors so you can get away.

So yes, It goes on my CV if anything just as an ice breaker to let me know they read it and are capable as employers to admit they do not know what it is.

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2 hours ago, because of this topic i gave a chap a trial for a week just because he knew what EVE was. hes getting a weeks money based on his professionalism and because he thinks that EVE is like any other hobby.

in defence of the opposition I also like airsoft but as a 24yr old manager i dont tell many people particularly prospective employers that i like metal toy guns and BB bullets. so I guess the end result is this.

anything can be positive or negative depending upon the context of its arrival in a conversation.