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was talking to someone today about what it took to make the leap from community member to community manager, so i took a look back... the answer i gave was "perseverance" this is the 8th time i have applied to blizzard over the last two years. sometimes lucky https://t.co/1ebJwyGraw

was talking to someone today about what it took to make the leap from community member to community manager, so i took a look back... the answer i gave was "perseverance" this is the 8th time i have applied to blizzard over the last two years. sometimes lucky https://t.co/1ebJwyGraw

  • RidiculousHat
    Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
    was talking to someone today about what it took to make the leap from community member to community manager, so i took a look back... the answer i gave was "perseverance" this is the 8th time i have applied to blizzard over the last two years. sometimes lucky https://t.co/1ebJwyGraw

    • Matt London
      Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
      @RidiculousHat I’ve talked about this before, but it took me a dozen or so applications over ten years from the first when I was 25 and on the call the hiring manager called me stupid. Two paid flights to Irvine, apps to every franchise. It’s luck and perseverance.

      • Matt London
        Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
        @RidiculousHat In retrospect it seems inevitable. You make it inevitable.

    • Sunset_SC2
      Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
      @RidiculousHat As someone who was also rejected multiple times by Blizzard and was a SC2 content person, the perseverance should be framed more like...open-minded relentlessness. It's so much about the job fitting you, as well as you fitting the job. Hard to explain this in tweet length!

      • RidiculousHat
        Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
        @Sunset_SC2 let me try 1. seek alignment - shotgun blast applying not helpful 2. routinely and repeatedly express interest when alignment is found 3. maintain consistent presence in the face of adversity/rejection 4. build and maintain connections regardless of job pursuit status

        • Sunset_SC2
          Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
          @RidiculousHat Yes! :) But also the open-mindedness about how your skills can be applied/used! Your screenshot showed you applied for a bunch of things you could theoretically do, on different kinds of teams that utilize different disciplines. This was CORRECT :D

          • RidiculousHat
            Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
            @Sunset_SC2 YEAH! i felt good about those applications and many of them led to interviews - some of them were stretches and others were much closer alignments but all of them felt like they were worth chasing. you're right, this is hard to express in tweet length lol

            • Sunset_SC2
              Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
              @RidiculousHat Yeah! My first interview with Blizz was for an Overwatch CM role (SO LONG AGO), then a PR job back in Aus (which was a bit dumb because I had no PR exp LEL), and each interview process taught me a lot about myself AND ALSO about those teams/jobs! TWEETS DUMB. BURN TWEETS. 🔥

              • Matt London
                Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
                @Sunset_SC2 @RidiculousHat It is about the job fitting you, but in some ways you can shape yourself to fit the job. I talk about this with publishing novels. You immerse yourself in the world and when you get there it doesn’t feel special, but that’s b/c you built a world for yourself where it MUST happen.

    • Mitchell Loewen
      Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
      @RidiculousHat I think it took me ~4-5 tries to get on the team. My first few applications were actively bad (I didn't know what I didn't know), but I kept trying and just kind of strived to be a more compelling applicant with each attempt. Eventually they took a chance on me 😁

      • RidiculousHat
        Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
        @LoewenMitchell and they highrolled ez

        • Mitchell Loewen
          Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
          @RidiculousHat Better than ez bottom right

        • Matt London
          Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
          @RidiculousHat @LoewenMitchell And then there’s @MyntyPhresh who just casually made shippable cards every day for a year on spec.

          • MyntyPhresh
            Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
            @themattlondon @RidiculousHat @LoewenMitchell Look me in the eyes and tell me this is a shippable card https://t.co/sqOpOzCDLz

            • MyntyPhresh
              Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
              @themattlondon @RidiculousHat @LoewenMitchell I also applied to internships across Blizz multiple times before i graduated and only got far in one, and then didnt get it

              • Matt London
                Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
                @MyntyPhresh @RidiculousHat @LoewenMitchell I think some years blizz gets like 40,000 internship applicants.

                • RidiculousHat
                  Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
                  @themattlondon @MyntyPhresh @LoewenMitchell that's a very large number

                  • Matt London
                    Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
                    @RidiculousHat @MyntyPhresh @LoewenMitchell It’s a very cool internship.

            • Matt London
              Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
              @MyntyPhresh @RidiculousHat @LoewenMitchell Edward: “Leo honestly that miiight see play.”

              • MyntyPhresh
                Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
                @themattlondon @RidiculousHat @LoewenMitchell It sees play Too much play

    • hsdecktech
      Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
      @RidiculousHat You know, and my story is my pinned tweet, but since it might help others to see us all sharing: I applied dozens of times over 5 years. Some of those just weren’t the right fit. Some were heartbreakingly close. But I kept at it, and kept improving, and landed in the right spot.

      • flyingwalruss
        Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
        @hsdecktech @RidiculousHat Really sucks that persevere & continuing to hone your skills is the answer to getting the job you want but alas thems the breaks

        • hsdecktech
          Posted 2 years, 8 months ago (Source)
          @flyingwalruss @RidiculousHat It’s like when you eat right and exercise and suddenly feel better. The worst.

    • Tabayrak
      Posted 2 years, 7 months ago (Source)
      @RidiculousHat It took me 6 applications to join Blizzard between 2012 and 2015, then it took me about 14 applications to become a designer at Blizzard between 2016 and 2020.
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