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Foreign professors: The Game Highlight your job resume
Was originally published in "Pc World"; by the "Casual Friday
"Columnist and" PcWorld "senior author to write DarrenGladstone. This article is intended to show the game positive and useful role in society and in the economic crisis moment for those who love the game but in the future love life full of worry about the new graduates to provide help and encouragement.

   
"I organized and led by 50 team 3 times smooth Association open a copy of ..." Maybe you never have not seen someone to do the deeds of loading job resume, but there are people who will own " World of Warcraft, "the role of the hierarchy and sought to incorporate race. Perhaps looking at some far-fetched, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Education and Entertainment program director and co-operation, Professor EricKlopfer has said, there are a number of studies have focused on people in the game can access the actual capacity. Hei hei, you apart from rubbing in the Village of Warcraft fireball, but also to learn what it?

     Professor Klopfer introduce the University of Wisconsin ConstanceSteinkeuhler topic. She "confirmed people playing" World of Warcraft, "the process of study and practice a variety of a variety of practical skills - data collection and analysis, team spirit, planning, resource management and allocation, and even incentives and management team." If the "WoW" ignored the words, more than any of the ability to write in your resume on the job the unit will allow people funding brighten.

   
MIT Sloan School of Management Fellow, and "Changing the Game: Electronic Game how it affects the future of commercial," a book co-authors EthanMollick express "in the modern office environment in the electronic games also with the stigma of shame is a ." Many employers still consider him the game as a scarlet letter "S" that is lazy, synonymous with escape.

   
Of course, "Gears of War 2" and should not replace job-specific skills training, unless you really need to use power saws to work ... ha ha. However, there is evidence that the mission with integrity and teamwork Line Game content can really enhance people in the real world of working capacity. (Mollick Canal VirtualLeader-a simulated management game as an example, pointing out that playing the game several months later to improve the efficiency of 25% at least). Of course, the current mainstream games positive study is still in its infancy.

   
So sad in the economy of today, how do you prepare? This article, author and professor of the above-mentioned several scholars will be a few time-tested high-quality resume as a blueprint, how do you tell the game to the finishing touch to your resume.

   
However the following are a few ideas for you mainly initiate brainstorming, unless you want to job in the games industry, or else do not recommend you directly use. In addition you must be looking for a job when the recruitment of officials understand that you are only in their spare time playing games instead of working hours.

     Natural-born leader of one style

   
You understand and dare promised not hesitate to go all out to achieve team goals ... experts praised the Association of Large Games organization are best able to exercise leadership in place. When you and the Association in dealing with all kinds of staff to overcome the personality conflicts towards a common goal of the tireless efforts; When you finally found like-minded teammates to set up their own Association and maintain the unity between the U.S., have grown to feel that they are one outstanding leaders?

     2, excellent communication skills

   
In any one large-scale multiplayer online game, to express themselves and communicate with others are extremely important. Take last year's best game "Fallout 3" for example, it has a huge fear of the world, multiple open-interpersonal content. In the post-nuclear war during the period of waste land, there is no simple "on" and "mistake." You against other players and npc's behavior and language will directly affect the outcome of your game. Only carefully chosen colleagues and enemies, and properly resolve the conflict so as to enable their son to eat less guns. Although unable to compete with the reality of the negotiations and to discuss the relative, but the game does teach you how to think about the relationship between with others.

     3 team 1

   
"Rainbow 6: Las Vegas 2" or any one team first-person shooter will be able to provide a good collaboration environment. Imagine if many companies will be carried out by trained staff to expand, such as white-collar workers are heavily armed to paintball games ... so even the military training will be the use of this shooting game. Experts believe that all such collaboration can promote the Games the enthusiasm of small groups and flexibility - all want to cooperate. Of course, people have trouble, but their existence is the training team of stability and confidence in the opportunity.

   
But also in online games, you tend to face more than a small part of an acquaintance. Network uplink colored people have, usually associated with players who are not good team attitude, we are more moderate and cautious, because nobody do not want to be broken as a reminder as to bring so. But when you discover that like you, skilled techniques and stringent attitude those people, there will be a High Mountain and Flowing Water, friends met it with emotion and excitement. At this time is the comrade-in-arms to bring back the time has come.

     4 attention to detail, good at analysis

   
Professor Klopfer children referred to a period from the beginning of a lot of people on the desktop to play games such as "Pokemon." The beginning of the game when everyone will use less of the license number and some data. As the players grow older, the game has become increasingly complex, requiring the use of the sign face and data. For WoW players, what kind of equipment on your body composition to achieve the best injury / therapeutic value? How to choose the best time to use the skills in order to ensure changsheng Medium PvP? What is the time to buy from auction houses to sell in order to earn a bowl full? These are required keen observation and careful analysis. Not hesitate to spend money when we buy a number of industry analysis at the same time, a small amount of monthly flower Card money can be carried out in depth research Is Nothing help?

     5 Institute of foresight

   
Go ask those obsessed with the "Civilization 4" or "Sim City" the players what they have learned it. Whether each of a diplomatic success or failure of the direction of a road will affect the fate of your empire and your urban development. By simulating the operation of the game, you know how to develop a blueprint and taking into account details from the overall composition and implementation of events caused by positive or negative effect, as well as how to deal with and so on.

   
Mollick look even joke that the game can really teach you some real knowledge, such as history, geography and so on. Through such reasoning, playing "StarCraft" or "Command & Conquer" Such real-time strategy game apart from the above skills will train you how to cope with the reality of multi-tasking situation, teach you how a rational allocation of energy. Of course, the positive and negative significance of this effect is not very clear.

     6 to become problem solvers

   
Of the Games can promote development of the brain did not receive the academic consensus, but a study has claimed that playing Nintendo's "brain training" of children has increased by 19 percent the capacity of mathematical calculations. But the study also said that other activities can also strengthen the mathematical abilities. However, since the ability to promote mathematics, then good is not it, games are a positive and progressive.

   
The same such as "Professor Lei Dun" and "Zach and Cavic," has been providing training in problem-solving. Unfortunately the results of such training can be transformed into the number of reality remains to be seen. lopfer said: "In the game world, complete the mission and their need to take into account a variety of strategies. But to learn the strategy game in general should not be used directly on reality." Despite the many questions, but the game is hpatty mccormackn nature, we are all in comprehend them and grow ......