If you get a TO staff job, would you put it on your resume to college?

[MusicJam19 737]

Many industries are so competitive that you need experience in that trade, i can show you 50+ people who are now doing work for free to get the experience so they can get paid work in the industries they have picked.

 

Now days a bachelor degree is not worth much, so many now going on to masters and PHD.

Perhaps, but the op question was talking about college resumes, not high demand jobs

I probably wouldn't include my tanki job in my CV

[jazz20 1,181]

your mother :P :P

 

atMusicJam19 (one of your comments about work with no pay after college)

Edited October 16, 2016 by jazz20

[sre123 595]

I wouldn't put it. The reason is that, people may think that I am addicted to a game.. 

[Phoenix.Rising 2,519]

I think only the westerners are brave enough to put such stuff in their CV.

 

Very few asians would do that. Whoever did this, and is from Asia, I salute your efforts. You dare put that in a resume here, it will be thrown out of the door. Simple.

Edited October 16, 2016 by Phoenix.Rising

[Tofu 6,773]

I think only the westerners are brave enough to put such stuff in their CV.

 

Very few asians would do that. Whoever did this, and is from Asia, I salute your efforts. You dare put that in a resume here, it will be thrown out of the door. Simple.

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[Phoenix.Rising 2,519]

Interns you from the US? i am on about in the UK and it nothing unusual for someon who has just finished a uni course to go get unpaid work to gain the experience thats needed for that job.

Unpaid work? That's unheard of. Who does things for free? Maybe paid less, but free?! FREE? No way.

 

How are people going to survive & pay for their own expenses if they work for free? Please explain.

Edited October 16, 2016 by Phoenix.Rising

[Phoenix.Raised 5,992]

Unpaid work? That's unheard of. Who does things for free? Maybe paid less, but free?! FREE? No way.

How are people going to survive & pay for their own expenses if they work for free? Please explain.

Benefits of unpaid work experience:

• Improve your understanding of the workplace environment and what employers expect.
• Explore jobs or industries that interest you to inform future career and study choices.
• Develop your skills, both technical and employability skills (such as teamwork and punctuality). These can be very useful as examples of your work in future job applications.
• Gain referees who you can ask to provide references for future job or study applications.
• Gain a network of contacts for future study and career advice.

[Phoenix.Rising 2,519]

Benefits of unpaid work experience:

• Improve your understanding of the workplace environment and what employers expect.
• Explore jobs or industries that interest you to inform future career and study choices.
• Develop your skills, both technical and employability skills (such as teamwork and punctuality). These can be very useful as examples of your work in future job applications.
• Gain referees who you can ask to provide references for future job or study applications.
• Gain a network of contacts for future study and career advice.

More like allowing companies to take you for a free ride and devalue your work. If a intern does similar work to an employee, then that person must be paid accordingly with a salary. That is what my country's Employment Act believes in.

 

Failing to do so means the government can impose a fine on the company.

 

It is strongly discouraged here. No one works for free. :)

Edited October 16, 2016 by Phoenix.Rising

[MusicJam19 737]

your mother :P :P

 

atMusicJam19 (one of your comments about work with no pay after college)

Ha ha

Very good one

Original :)

[Lhamster 4,081]

I'm looking for a job IRL now and my Tanki "career" takes up about half of the experience and skills sections. I know it may seem like fun and games and just a useless hobby that's nothing but a waste of time in the eyes of most parents, but at the end of the day the list of useful life skills you end up with after working as a helper is a lot longer than you might expect:

• Communication
• Working in a team
• Patience
• Customer service
• Explaining/describing
• Maintaining order
• Decision making, logical thinking
• And many more obscure skills which you unknowingly gain and use in this job.

So if the skills you gain while working as TO staff can apply to what you plan to do in your real job, mentioning this in your CV is very useful, especially if you just got out of school/university and have no other previous experience/workplace to refer to.

This. Exactly this. Had TO stuff on my CV since I made it, I mention it's a online game once, and then spend most of the time talking about the skills I've learnt.

[NatchGa 665]

"Yeah i spent a lot of time sitting on a computer muting people on an online game for the in game currency as payment" 

wow you'll go to Harvard with just that alone

[Remaine 4,687]

My aspirations involve writing, and I write for a MMO... You see where this is going.

Edited October 16, 2016 by Remaine

[DESTROYER_13 1,019]

If I could list the positives, and what I have learnt from it (which are actually beneficial), sure, I would. But I would not make it a priority, if I have other achievements, for the sake of keeping the resume short.

 

 

 

 

"Yeah i spent a lot of time sitting on a computer muting people on an online game for the in game currency as payment" 

wow you'll go to Harvard with just that alone

1)

 

 

Yeah i spent a lot of time sitting on a computer

 

 

2) 

 

 

"Yeah I spend a lot of time helping out other people with their problems, keeping order, improving my communications skills, and logical thinking."

 

 

 

3)

 

 

"Yeah i spent a lot of time sitting on a computer muting people on an online game for the in game currency as payment" 

wow you'll go to Harvard with just that alone

Not now, riddler.

 

 

 

Edited October 16, 2016 by DESTROYER_13

[NatchGa 665]

If I could list the positives, and what I have learnt from it (which are actually beneficial), sure, I would. But I would not make it a priority, if I have other achievements, for the sake of keeping the resume short.

 

 

 

 

1)

 

 

 

 

2) 

 

 

 

 

 

3)

 

 

Not now, riddler.

 

 

 

... If you want people to understand what point your trying to make, please use less spoilers and like, keep everything organized... thanks

[DESTROYER_13 1,019]

... If you want people to understand what point your trying to make, please use less spoilers and like, keep everything organized... thanks

I was keeping everything organised by using spoilers...

 

Thanks for the tip.

[Mr.71 123]

More like allowing companies to take you for a free ride and devalue your work. If a intern does similar work to an employee, then that person must be paid accordingly with a salary. That is what my country's Employment Act believes in.

 

Failing to do so means the government can impose a fine on the company.

 

It is strongly discouraged here. No one works for free. :)

When i finished my studies I needed a job there was only a few jobs about and only people with experience where getting these jobs, by going working for free for 6 months i got the experience that was needed to walk into a good well paid job. Others on my course who did not do as i did took a couple of years to get work that was related to the course. So by the time they got into working i had already got 2 years experience and a promotion. Think it has paid off big time.

[NatchGa 665]

removed

Edited October 18, 2016 by NatchGa

[NatchGa 665]

I was keeping everything organised by using spoilers...

 

Thanks for the tip.

the image you used doesnt show up anyway... so much for all the information you had to keep organized through your precious spoilers..

[Torva-Messor 104]

I would put down every little molecule of experience I have ever had. Versatility, flexibility, shows you are able to learn and grasp new skills, regardless of what it is. You never know what people in the Ivory Towers are looking for.

 

Of course how you word it is important, as well. You might put Staff Member (Moderator) of a MMORPG (you may need to translate) as a heading and as subheads put what skills you had to sharpen up on (EX: Language skills, Communications), skills you had to learn (EX: a language different from your Native Language...even if you don't speak it well, but still are familiar with it, different cultures).

 

Build yourself up, put on some spit and polish, maybe a little Brasso, too. There is only one person in this world that really knows you and that's you. Leave nothing to assumption.

 

I know this has nothing to do with a College or University, but a friend was looking for a job and applied for one with a well known insurance company, doing file work in a entry level position. In his resume, he mentioned Computer Research (actually, all he did was look stuff up on the computer for his friends and family, but felt he was good at it). He was hired for an unadvertised position in their Research Dept. gathering statistics on home and auto accidents, cause of the accidents, percentages, etc. All his findings are taken into consideration and used to see how the company can grow in other fields, such as Accident Prevention. I don't know a whole lot about the job, but his salary is much, much more than what he would have been making as a File Clerk. 

 

So, you never know what others are looking for. Who knows, maybe that person who picks up doggie poop in the local public park might land a job in an Animal Health Dept. inspecting poop for chemical break down, how animals digest food and what comes out the other end.

 

Ya never know.

 

So, yeah put in everything you have been associated with. It's possible a Counselor may see some potential in you that you have never considered.

[DESTROYER_13 1,019]

the image you used doesnt show up anyway... so much for all the information you had to keep organized through your precious spoilers..

Awww so much for that  :(

[angelreaper 65]

So, you never know what others are looking for. Who knows, maybe that person who picks up doggie poop in the local public park might land a job in an Animal Health Dept. inspecting poop for chemical break down, how animals digest food and what comes out the other end.

 

 

 

Research who you send your CV too. Tweak it to match what they want. Researching them also shows you spent time to find out about them, what they do and what they want. You did not just send of 100  photo copies of the same thing to 100 companies doing the same thing. To get LOST in the 1,000 similar CV's sent in.

 

• Be precise
• To the point
• Eye catching and original (Typing in CAP's does not count as eye catching)
• Sell yourself 

AND try to leave them WANTING to KNOW more about you not thinking "Is he ever going to shut up about......." 

 

Lets hope you all get the position you want

[Zenyth 6,494]

I would... maybe.