Include E-Sports Experience in CV

Bad idea - interests are to show

• you're relatable to the interviewer (most bankers don't game seriously)

• you're and interesting active person who does things outside school (most bankers equate gaming with sitting on your ass wasting time)

If you placed top three in any tournaments just put esports and people who are into it will ask about it.

I don't see how that helps you. No one reading your resume in the jobs you're applying for is going to know what that is.

It's not like an athlete or some other hobby that senior bankers could relate to. E-Sports is pretty new overall so I don't think any bankers will have any experience in that. Maybe in a decade or so but, not right now.

Also right or wrong, a lot of people are going to see video games as a juvenile activity.

Agreed as above, you could put gaming your interest in your CV below and maybe if they're interested they'll ask you about it. (Had a great conversation about CSGO actually for one of my superdays)

But nothing more, unless you were an actual professional (which by the sounds of it you weren't)

I actually put in my interests that I was into eSports and had a few interviewers ask me about it specifically and they all found it pretty interesting. It was a good conversational breather and something they didn't see before, I had a lot of "and now, what is this eSports?" etc.

So i guess it's up to you totally but if you're knowledgable at it, or top tier in a particular game and able to convey it without sounding 'nerdy' i guess, I think it's a pro.

Yes, include eSports on the interest section of your resume. It's another way to make a connection with an interviewer who's also interested in video games. The person above who said "most bankers equate gaming with sitting on your ass wasting time", clearly has no idea what they are talking about. If you end up having a conversation about eSports it makes you more memorable than a candidate who rambled about a DCF they built in their intro to finance course. It also shows you aren't a human robot that has passions outside of Finance.

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I doubt it makes any sense because HRs don't care about such things. It's better to focus on smth else.

I don't think it's a good idea. People in business administration are suspicious towards gaming. Well, I don't think it will affect the final decision, but it's odd mentioning your gaming experience in your CV. But if you're applying for a job in a company that deals with gaming or any kind of entertainment, it may help you, I guess. For example, my uni friend has participated in a couple of CS:GO tournaments and even was among the best players there. Now he works as a marketing specialist at skinsmonkey.com (it's a CS:GO online platform). His past gaming experience has helped him get a job here.

My brother has applied for a job as a game dev. in a company, but the gaming past didn't help him much. So, it depends on the company too.

I also competed in eSports but didn't include that part in my resume. I would always bring it up during interviews and it really helped, it was a way to differentiate myself from other candidates. I just incorporated the gaming part into my story and it usually worked out pretty well. The interviewers usually followed up and asked questions about the game/eSports/industry as a whole! If you can articulate your time in eSports really well, it will help! You can talk about the publisher, industry, fundraising news. A shit ton of new start-ups have raised a lot of money, a lot of cool things are going on in the eSports world right now. 

Agree with the comments above about including it, but would recommend you put something generic like "E-Sports" and not the particular game. If they're a gamer they'll ask you about it and there's upside from a personal connection / something for them to remember you by. If they're not interested they won't ask and it won't be seen as a negative. Playing games is not a weird hobby. If you're super into taxidermy then yea maybe skip that one, could be some downside. But counterstrike came out 21 years ago... at this point there's a decent chance your final round VP/D/MD interviewers played it in high school when it first came out (I know I did)

Were you global elite? If you were not and the interviewer asks you, it’s going to look bad.

Do it, I spoke about CS in one of my interviews for like 30 min bc my interviewer played as well.