Alright, it's not that simple, but an article on the BBC has suggested that in the future, being a gamer may well help you climb that slippery ladder. Apparently being a guild leader in World of Warcraft shows organisational skills, people management and that you know how to shout "DOTS!!!" Which is important.

The article goes on to talk about videogames replacing psychometric testing in evaluating potential employees mental states (I'm guessing they won't use Postal 2), and eventually dull and laborious tasks being converted into games so that they're not dull and laborious anymore. What? Like in Mary Poppins? A spoonfull of Halo makes the medicine go down?

The whole point about office work is that it is monotonous. Make a game out of it and it will still be monotonous, it'll just be a monotonous game.

I for one won't be pasting my gamertag to the top of any job applications in the future, mainly because of the blasphemy contained in my name, but also because if they do use it to find out what kind of a person I am, it will reveal a penchant for violence, Japanese men with exciting hair and hiding around corners waiting to snap people's necks. And I can't think what job that lot would get me.

Source BBC