Is it advisable to add in your CV that you love to play videogames?

Exactly and videogame is kinda the same for me. I'm not a recruiter but I feel like you should only include your hobbies if they're a little out of the ordinary or you're really good at them. Always seems weird when I see a cv were someone wrote their hobbies are music, reading and movies

If it isn't immediately applicable then it's a waste of space and they will be more likely to just toss your application.

Not at Nintendo. Miyamoto only hires people that hate video games.

What possible benefit would it bring?

You don't put hobbies on a resume.

if you're a woman, yes
if you're a man, no, never
even if you're applying for a game dev job, they dont want a man who plays games

What on God's green Earth is a 'CV'? You mean a res-you-may?

To be fair i think it's more to do with the fact bigger companies have proper HR teams, and Human Resource people are always joyless assholes, I would bet even Nintendo's HR department only cares about HR and nothing about gaming. If you were applying to a small indie team then your passion for games is bound to be worth much more in the interview/application process

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OP I actually work in recruitment. I'd recommend leaving all solitary hobbies off your cv. Only include things like team sports if you play any of them or hobbies which may be relevant to the job in question you are applying for. If you have any other questions I'm happy to help.

Yes, right after your pronouns and fetishes.

Do you check with former employers?

What about music? I mean, I'm a bass player, and I play music with some friends

Because it does no good writing that you like "movies", what movies do you like and what does that tell about yourself?
Protip: No recruiter would be interested in knowing you play videogames, useless info who cares but what genres do you play can be written down and oraly, if asked, you can throw your spiel about about how running an MMO guild gave you insight on how to manage a community for example.
The "hobbies" section of a CV doesn't mean just write what you like in life this is the trap everyone falls into. This section is infact yet another oportunity to sell yourself.

Depends if the recruiter is homophobic

Kek why?

Of course. There was a situation recently where we had a really good candidate in the interview. We contacted 3 of his prior employers and 2 provided glowing references but the 3rd and most recent employer did not so we ended up not hiring him because of that 3rd employer. So if you are putting prior employers/references down on your cv make sure you can rely on them to give you a good reference.

100% put that down. It shows you have dedication and are willing to put in the effort to develop a skill.

I put on my CV my participation in the FGC as a social activity and taking on responsibilities to help run functions along with a healthy competitive mindset.

What does playing music taught you that could be useful for the position you're applying to?

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Don't add into your CV anything that's irrelevant to the work/field you're applying for.

Good shit.

>private business owner

>don't need to deal with this shit

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Wrong. Anything can be relevant if you twist it the right way. Never just stand there to be taken or not based on who you are, that's ridiculous. Tell them who you will be in their company.

>Yes, sir, I like to collect stamps, does that make me more desirable for your company?

Nice. Thanks
I guess perceverance on learning something, and the "ability" of being in a small group of people, or better, socializing and take decisions toghether
was a good answer?

I can tell you the manager at McDonald's didn't care one bit.

Yes if yopu want to be hired into my team or my business, I don't want to be talking about sports or politics during lunch break, so all the people I hire plays video games, loves anime or has some kind of nerd hobby.

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I guess

>tfw the only question the recruiter ask is "when can you start?"

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>Can't write my actual hobbies because they make me liable to injuries
>Can't write my day to day hobbies because they're unremarkable and generic
Fucking cancer.

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Heart failure isn't an injury fatty

Decompression sickness sure is.

Getting along with your friends in a band is not an ability, what if your band is four stranger instead? And you've never missed a practice session. I don't have a lot of imagination right now.

Didn't think that far...as teenager I worked at a call center where I got fired because I 'hacked' into their system and ordered electronic stuff for a very insignificant price (e.g macbook for 50 euros). They didn't notice for months but my chef did say he randomly found out and I didn't care 'cause I was fed up with the job. My fault was that the order delivered to my home address...the story so far. Police came, I was underage, had to do 150h of community service and all went well. But I included this company in my VC, how fucked up am I?

Well what age are you now? How may years ago was this? Have you worked multiple jobs since then without issue?

How to hide holes in your resume?

How long exactly?

23 and after school I studied in 2 universities without graduation, so this far I have no work experience. I'm applying for a mechatronics schooling.

Years long

6 years ago

Your hobbies or what you do with your free time are NONE of their fucking business.

What if I build replicas of landmarks with matchsticks?

Right well I'm not going to lie to you. It will raise a red flag as to why you have gone 6 years without working and the fact that your only work experience was with a place that most likely won't give you a good reference. Do either of your parents own their own business? Or any uncles or anything? If you have any relations who own a business you could just say you worked for them and ask them to give you a reference.

We talking 2 years or 5+ years here?

2

Cool, want a fucking medal?

Thanks for the help tho. Now I know what I gotta do if I fuck up this application

As a hobby, maybe? It's not something I'd personally put on my CV though.

Where I work, we constantly get people who lie about who they are and what they do for fun. 100% of the goddamn time they will break down due to the pressures of the job because they aren't even comfortable with how they relax, much less the stresses of the workplace.
If you have no confidence to express yourself, you will inevitably get used as a disposable doormat by anyone who works with you until it becomes too much and you literally have a stress attack. This is bad, you don't want your workers to do that.
>Is it advisable to add in your CV that you love to play videogames?
Yes, but not because of the videogames.
What you're doing here is advertising to your employer that you are confident enough to express your interests.
That is, that you won't have a panic attack at your desk and you won't need to take time off to deal with the stress and anxiety, after someone said a mean word to you.
Specify which videogames you like to play, too. Because if you're the type of faggot that is "only halfway confident" then you aren't confident at all.
>but it's underage loli quest pantsu sniffer edition
No, it's a game about ninjas beating the crap out of each-other, or about running an alchemy shop, or of gitting gud and dodging the curtainfire, or about German politics, which also features cute girls. Cmon son. Focus on what's good, not on other people's judgement.

I did and I got hired as a business analyst.

A friend of mine listed videogames and watching movies as his hobbies. He got a job at McDonald's just fine.

ok. So you could say there was an illness in your family which required you to take a career break and that the illness is now resolved and you are willing and eager to get back into the workforce.

I'm studying Business Information Systems in college and intending to try and get working as a business analyst when I graduate. Whats the job like? Is it stressful? Long hours?

Sad!

You are quite literally the soul sucking scum of techinical jobs. I shouldn't need, not have to jump through hoops with some asswipe that calls me in the middle of a meeting for some job 600 miles away.

Seriously, software developers fucking hate you and wish companies would just contract out themselves

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Well who do you think is going to contact you from the company?

I just added videogames in my interests section which was roughly 3 lines yet still got 2 job offers across the big four last year. If you get rejected for that alone you've probably been saved from working under some shitty "people-oriented" managers anyway.

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No, you only put hobbies that are disciplined or useful

I play x sport, I make x, I help out at x charity

Videogames, tv and socialising are instant 'I have no motivation or discipline' red flags

I'm applying for audio programming jobs in the game industry and ALL of the listings have 'must be passionate about games' in the description. The user you're talking to is a faggot

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Amerifag here. What the everloving fuck are you guys talking about?

Why would you put any hobbies at all on your resume? That's so unprofessional. Is this a joke? All of you act like it's normal.

Employers only want to see a one page resume. Why would you, or normies, dedicate space on that for telling them you like to watch netflix and jerk off to anime shemales? You should be writing your experience, skills, certifications and education.

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Hey, I'm trying to get my first junior dev job after finishing a bootcamp. Is your expertise applicable to that?

Yes indeed but why not use your hobbies as opportunities to assure them you're perfect for the job ?
It seems like this is what many people don't understand about CVs and interviews. The goal is not only to tell them who you are without forcing their hands, you want to get hired or what. No wonder you get rejected if you play aloof.

Devfag who works in AAA games here, graphic position

No, its basically assumed that you do if you want to work in vidya. Your CV is better filled out with experience, projects and skills in the first place.

From the companies I've been at nobody has asked me if I played vidya; They've always asked me what kind of vidya I play. I would imagine its more of a courtesy than anything, I don't think I've ever been at a company that would outright reject you for not playing vidya if you apply for a artist position and you have the skillset to back it up. I'd imagine it would be different if you were a game designer though.

Hope you liked Rage 2, we worked really hard on it

Underrated post .

Western devs can't make good games sorry

I should add this isn't for a gaming role - most likely java or javascript.

But taking decisions toghether in a polite way, listening to other opinions sure it is.
And if you can't do this with you friends, i sure can't do with strangers
I never did one of those things, since I work in a shop, and the owner already known who I was, so he just said "why come work here for a while?"

>t. you
Absolutely not you fucking retard

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I didn't buy it because I'm really skint, and the first one didn't blow me away, and to be honest I wasn't fabulously drawn in by this one either. It looks like it has good gunplay, but that tends to be mostly lost on me, when I play an open world game I need a setting worth exploring and a story (/stories) worth caring about. I didn't get the impression that was the focus of Rage 2's attention.

I'll keep it consideration though, and I hope it was a success for the studio. I can only imagine how miserable it must be to work yourself to the bone for a game and have it not get much notice.

Does adding your hobbies ever actually improve your chances of landing a job?

>I'd recommend leaving all solitary hobbies off your cv.
This is about videogames, bro. You know, those activities where you have to be better than other people?

I'd recommend you develop a portfolio of work in your own time so you have stuff to talk about in interviews to make you stand out from people with actual programming degrees. You should have a link to your github in your cv so the recruiter can actually look at what you've done. Also any links to websites or other projects you may have created too.

Thats fine if thats the way you want to look at it but I can guarantee you people in recruitment don't look at it that way. Only include hobbies that are relevant to the job or that can clearly been seen as useful/beneficial in some way.

>"Yeah, I have over 100 solo wins in Fortnite, I guess you could say I'm more skilled than the other applicants."
Are you legitimately retarded or just a fucking mouthbreather

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Why are having employment gaps seen as a bad thing?
I have tons of employment gaps, mostly because the work I was doing at that time was not officially taxed. Is that the reason? Or is there another reason why they don't like employment gaps?

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If I like singing and do it all the time does it work? I'm -a good singler and people enjoy my singing in the workplace (I keep it low cause I'm not an obnoxious fag)

t. starving ethiopian mad that he hasn't got his Chicken Dinner yet.

Spent literally 0 vBucks, 300 wins

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I mean theres no real harm putting it down but no real benefit either. Its up to you.

Are work experiences abroad good to put even if they're not crazy jobs?

If you actually enjoy vidya and you want add hobbies, sure go ahead and add it. Some people might frown upon it, some might enjoy it, and some might even respect your honesty.
I have it in my CV next to my other hobbies. If you build your own PC you could also add that you enjoy tinkering with electronics and IT related things.

Your resume is there strictly to convince someone that you're the perfect man for the job. If it doesn't help, don't add it.

I'm self-employed too.
Couldn't get a bloody job for the life of me. I thought "With all the bloody effort I put into finding a job I could probably just create one", so I did.
Not sure how people put up with the whole human resources OHSA zero tolerance crap.
Is it true that people will literally be fired from their place of work if they have anti-globohomo opinions? If so that's pretty fucked.

Absolutely. Put all work experiences as long as you can get a good reference from them.

If the place is a country that doesn't speak the language of my homeland, like German while I come from a French speaking place, is it still relevant? I mean they can't really call cause they won't be able to communicate. And my boss sure doesn't speak English.

My github has all my work from the bootcamp, including my projects that I think will be reasonably impressive to any technical person who takes a look at them - it and the projects are all linked to from the CV.

I've not been tremendously active since I finished the course though - what sort of projects would you recommend I work on? What sort of thing would employers like to see?

because it implies you were unemployable

yes, still put it in.

>because it implies you were unemployable
Ah, okay. Makes sense.

Wait, question. What are some ways a person might be unemployable, other than just being a lazy bastard who refuses to work?
Let's assume that there are a bunch of different jobs you are willing to do, and for each job, you would perform associated responsibilities reasonably expected of such a position, and would put in more effort than 70% of people in such a position.
Let's also assume that you aren't going to steal shit or embezzle money or physically attack co-workers or try to slander the business you're working at.
Is there still something that would make you unemployable?

there could be any number of things wrong with you - the point is that you being out of work for a long stretch of time without a good explanation leaves them fearing the worst. there are all kinds of reasons you might be unemployable, and with an unexplained gap they can't rule any of them out.

>there could be any number of things wrong with you
That was too vague. Give concrete examples, please.

What if you had a gap in your cv BUT its not recent? Like if it was a few years ago but you have had a job recently. Will future employers still question your gap from a few years ago even though you have worked recently? I only ask as my 6 month temp contract at my current job is ending at end of June so I'll be looking for work again.

any of the things you said to assume you didn't do. the employer won't assume you didn't do them without an explanation.

they might not, but you should prepare to be able to explain why, regardless.

I see you dodged the question. I'll ask it again.

What are some ways a person might be unemployable, other than just being a lazy bastard who refuses to work?
Let's assume that there are a bunch of different jobs you are willing to do, and for each job, you would perform associated responsibilities reasonably expected of such a position, and would put in more effort than 70% of people in such a position.
Let's also assume that you aren't going to steal shit or embezzle money or physically attack co-workers or try to slander the business you're working at.
Is there still something that would make you unemployable?

Y’all faggots need to learn some stuff about interviewing and jobs.

1. Stop thinking how to answer every question specifically. Learn what previous work you’ve had as specific skills to your character, and take stories from those jobs.
2. Answer every question unless it’s not appropriate with something non ambiguous. “I helped the team” vs “I established myself within the team, and was able to bring down our costs for the yea by 30%”
3. Stop thinking of questions so directly and break them down into how they relate to the job.
4. Don’t fucking lie to look better, you aren’t as good at lying as you think.
5. If they ask you if you have any questions, start asking about specifics in tools that they utilize vs what you’ve used. “What documentation system do you use here? With my previous location, I’m mainly familiar with onenote, sharepoint, and I’ve managed an internal wiki.”

Also fucking research the company and learn their power statements. You wanna know the best answers for shit like “what’s your greatest weakness?” “Describe a time that you failed, and how you overcame it.” Look at the fucking job description, and pull things outside of it.

You still fucking sending your resume out and not networking because you’re retarded? Just take the job description, make it white font, shrink it down to like .01 size and throw it on the bottom of the resume, that way the keyword scanner will flag your resume to look over.

If you’re smart enough to not waste time job hunting without a network, find someone you work with who’s smarter than you, and an alcoholic. Fucking go out drinking with them a couple times, and then if possible find out their birthday through conversation. When their birthday comes around, give them a 40-60 dollar bottle of their preferred spirit.

Look at that, you have someone higher up the ladder who would fucking kill for you.

>incompetent
>lazy
>dishonest
>rude
>uncooperative
>underskilled
>abusive
Any of these might be true of you as far as a prospective employer is concerned.

Also yeah, don’t fucking talk about video games you god damn Mongolians. People who know what they’re doing, they craft their skills outside of work too.

>dishonest
>rude
>uncooperative
>underskilled
>abusive
Cool, thanks. That gives me something to work on. I'm a bit surprised that being rude and abusive might make you unemployable, considering some of the assholes I used to work with. But I guess times change. Now I have something to work on.

>Describe a time that you failed, and how you overcame it.
How would a non-gamer answer this question?
With a gamer you just answer that you failed because you were a scrub casul and you overcame it by gitting gud. I literally cannot think of another way to answer that question, and it's obviously a question asked of non-gamers, so how would they answer it?

it won't get you fired unless you get busted, but it's still never acceptable in theory and is one of the many reasons they might imagine you're an undesirable person they shouldn't hire

Rude to people with little pull means nothing beyond being seen unfavorably, and unable to get favors later. Though remember arrogance is self importance without context.

If I say I’m better than you at this job, and it’s true while also being relevant to me telling you to get out of the way so the job is done?

That’s not arrogant.

It’s literally a question of owning up to a mistake. Everyone fucks up, the people who hide it are fucking parasites. Simply own up to a time you actually fucked up, and speak to how you proactively fessed up so that them problem didn’t get worse.

>It’s literally a question of owning up to a mistake. Everyone fucks up, the people who hide it are fucking parasites.
That's true.
>Simply own up to a time [they] actually fucked up, and [spoke] to how [they] proactively fessed up so that them problem didn’t get worse.
Ah I see. So it's not about gitting gud individually, it's about gitting gud socially - of making it so your squad can git gud as a whole by you owning up to your mistake so they can correct for it. Makes sense.

Now that I think about it, gitting gud socially is probably what they're looking for in an employee who'll work alongside others, a person who'll help their squad carry and correct for individual mistakes.
That's a valuable skill.
Why don't more games teach players about gitting gud socially?

>Why don't more games teach players about gitting gud socially?
Because that requires team cohesion and trusting that your team will look out for you, if you look out for your team. You can't force players into that kind of commitment.

If you have anything that makes you seem cultured and could be relevant to the role put it up under 'further information'. Also gives you something they can ask you about in the interview if they want to appear personable.
t.I put down fine art photography in that section and listed where I'd been published. Still a NEET but I only updated my CV recently.