Looking to carve yourself a career in the eSports and gaming industry but unsure of how to go about hunting for jobs. In the exhaustive guide below, we look at more than 20 options you can choose from to get an eSports job around the profile you are looking for.
If you are someone just starting out in eSports, or want to understand what are the roles available in the gaming industry, we recommend you read our exhaustive guide listing out all such job profiles here.
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ReKTJobs
This has to be the first go-to jobs portal for eSports jobs. ReKTJobs.com, named after ReKT which is a gaming slang for ‘wrecked’, advertises itself as a ‘global eSports career website leader’, and one look at it and you will realize why.
It is a solid jobs portal platform for eSports jobs of all varieties; whether you are looking at journalist offers or aiming for social media manager jobs, from graphics designing to streaming team manager, or an eSports team organizer, sales director or a voice coach, it’s all there on ReKT jobs.
The last we saw, you could also post an eSports job for free on their platform.
Interestingly, ReKTJobs is a part of RekTGlobal.com, which offers services of various kinds to eSports clients. These include acting as an agency for companies looking to get into the industry, securing sponsorship deals, technology and logistics solutions for tournaments and producing content for companies.
eSports Online News Magazines
There is a growing trend of online eSports magazines and news websites coming through and as that number increases, the number of journalists required to cover eSports also shows a similar graph.
Even if many of these eSports magazines might not be directly advertising for jobs on their own website or might be doing so on other job portals, it makes sense to drop in an email to such websites requesting them to have a look at what you could bring to the table.
This is a bit of a cold-calling version of what salespeople do but you would be surprised to see the number of applicants who have had success in doing this.
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Famous, Legal eSports Betting & Tipping Websites
Just to give you a little background here.
A bookmaker is a company which gives out sports odds for respective markets, accepts money from customers and makes a payout when the customer wins. A tipster is a person or a company who offers free or paid betting tips, possibly in the form of match and tournament previews for the markets offered by a bookmaker.
Both bookmakers and tipsters associated with eSports need those who have played particular titles and have such a strong understanding they can go on to become part of their editorial teams – either giving information in the form of news or previews.
If betting is legal in your country and as a result, betting companies and tipsters are too, you could look to apply to such companies and cover your favourite eSports game (or games) for them. Typically, these are some of the higher-paid written content jobs in the market.
Tournament Portals
Every year there are a plethora of eSports tournaments which are organized by the top titles or leagues. Some of these include the likes of The International, Intel Extreme Masters, CS:GO Major Tournaments, Overwatch World Cup and the Fortnite World Cup Finals among others.
Each of them have an official website through which you can look to get in touch with them, especially if you are looking for non-gaming jobs.
Since the organization of these competitions takes a lot of effort, man-hours and skills of varying nature, you could look at applying to these websites with what you can bring to the table.
Some of these websites also advertise the currently available jobs and you could subscribe to their newsletter (if that’s an option) and get the latest listings without even checking on their sites on a regular basis.
eSports League Websites
Some of the top leagues in the world have job requirements mentioned on their websites too. Take, for instance, Blizzard Entertainment, which owns games like Overwatch, World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, StarCraft, Diablo and Hearthstone.
On its website you can find a wide variety of current job openings. You can access its job openings here.
Similarly, you can also get in touch with Call of Duty, whether to kick-start your gaming career or to organize your own event here.
eSports Team Websites
Some of the biggest eSports teams, which have earned multi-million dollar revenues over the years include Team Liquid, OG, Evil Genuises and Fnatic according to this list here.
To run multi-million dollar businesses, these teams require manpower which isn’t restricted to gamers alone. Team Liquid’s official website has a careers page that advertises its current openings. Typically, business analysts, developers and social media managers are in solid demand here.
Similarly, you can approach the team of Evil Genuises here and Fnatic here for your career requirements.
GameJournalismJobs.com
This is another jobs portal like ReKTJobs.com which allows job-seekers to apply for eSports and gaming related jobs. However, as the name suggests, this platform is for the jobs under gaming journalism sub-niche, and most of them are remote-based.
So if you are a freelancer or want to make a switch over to freelance content and writing role, this is a good place to apply. By the looks of things, there is a regular posting of eSports journalism jobs here and it doesn’t matter if you are experienced or a beginner, it has a role for all kinds.
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UpWork
UpWork was previously known as oDesk and is one of the most famous freelance job websites. Now while it’s a tad clunky to use, make no mistake about the quality of jobs on offer on it and agencies and companies looking to hire long-term freelancers in the eSports industry have often posted their jobs on this site.
Freelancer.com
Another freelance website, as the name obviously suggests, this is a direct competitor to UpWork. The expected payout on freelance eSports jobs on this website isn’t very high.
So if you are just starting out and looking for experience, this might be a decent place to kick-start your work but once you have some sort of experience under your belt, look elsewhere for work.
JobsIneSports.com
As the name suggests, this website is all about jobs in eSports. Owned by Dot Esports, this job portal focussed on all kinds of jobs related to eSports including freelance or voluntary.
And the jobs and internships posted by employers are related to gaming, streaming, content, technology-driven, social media, administration, community management, business development and everything else in the eSports non-gaming world here.
Those applying can do so by clicking on the job posting and then either using the contact details mentioned (or clicking on the apply button). Those looking to post a job need to register themselves on the website.
Fiverr.com
Much like Freelancer and Upwork, Fiverr.com is a website for freelancers but with a difference. Fiverr allows freelancers to set up their profiles where they mention exactly what services they can offer at what prices.
It’s like reading a menu card at a restaurant and choosing your favourite dish for a price.
As a eSports job-seeker, you can look to set up your profile with Fiverr, add your portfolio to your profile and wait for those seeking for your services to send in a message in case they are interested in what they see.
When you are just starting out and building your portfolio, it is prudent to focus on high quality at lower price, improving your quality and slowly tweaking up your rates.
Indeed.com
The main job site is Indeed.com and you will be redirected to your local regional site. It’s one of the biggest job sites globally with about 500 jobs added on to the site every minute by their own estimate.
You can post your resume and apply for any eSports jobs posted here, get company reviews, understand the industry standards for salaries and much more on Indeed.
Some of the top content companies including that for eSports use Indeed.com for hiring full-time and part-time industry experts.
ZipRecruiter.com
Another job portal which is based out of California in the US, and offices in UK, Canada and Israel. This site started off in 2010 and have some of the top companies including Fortune 500 firms looking for candidates.
Job seekers can check for the industry standard salaries in their field and region and can apply to jobs from their list of millions of jobs on offer.
SimplyHired.com
While SimplyHired.com is not too different from some of the other job portals mentioned on this page, one of the best features about this website is its ability to give you the average salary associated with a job profile.
A generic search for eSports, for instance, threw up the following. Now, this is a very generic job profile, eSports, but with some in-depth research, you could come up with the salaries associated with various profiles in eSports.
GlassDoor.com
Another job portal, not too different from the ones mentioned above.
University Placements
Universities for gaming? Did I hear that right?
With the eSports industry having grown into this big, billion plus dollar one, more and more universities have begun to offer eSports as a part of their curriculum. For instance, take a look at these universities and other educational institutes in the UK offering courses related to eSports.
Industry experts and leaders are called over for guest lectures and seminars, some of them also assist in setting up the course content for students.
Many of these universities also help assisting their students with getting in touch with the industry experts, sign up for internships and have placement days where these students could be hired in the kind of role they have groomed themselves into trying to get.
Universities also offer shorter courses which could add a lot of value to those who have already had some experience in the industry, in turn greatly improving their chances of getting a job.
However, one must quickly add here, most of these courses are like other courses in terms of fee structure, so it is a bit of an investment you would have to make.
Online Forums
While a forum stands for an official meetup between like-minded people looking to discuss a common matter, online forums are an extension of that.
There are multiple online forums where eSports fans throng and thrive in their discussions around various aspects of different games but these forums also consist of troves of information related to eSports careers.
What this does is it makes it an attractive place for recruiters or website owners or organizations to put up job offers around eSports.
The other way to look at it is if you are an active member in any sports-related forum, there is every chance you can try advertising your services as an eSports content-provider, for instance. The demand for eSports content has risen in recent times and is expected to boom over the next few years.
Here’s an example from a popular online forum, GPWA.org.
Most people have heard of and used LinkedIn but if you think it’s just another social media website, think again. Some of the top eSports recruits and companies are on LinkedIn and most of them post their jobs on to this website first.
The other advantage with LinkedIn is it allows you to connect with fellow gamers and non-gamers from the eSports industry. Industry connections are very vital and while it might not directly help you get a job, it goes a long way if those involved in the industry have some idea about your eSports career.
ProBlogger
This is slightly out of the box and there might not be too many job offers available on the jobs forum of this website, ProBlogger.com. However what makes this an attractive option is the demand from recruiters to post their job ads on this despite a posting charge (last we heard it was $70 for just posting an ad).
When a recruiter is willing to pay that much to post their ads when others like Freelancer and Upwork allow them to post for free, to me it’s just a pointer towards the kind of money they are ready to spend to get quality content.
So if you are a high-quality eSports journalist or video content provider, it wouldn’t be too bad an option to keep monitoring the jobs blog here.
Reddit is one of the biggest reserves of anything eSports and if you are a regular on the eSports subreddit, you can get a few options on it too.
And there are strict rules for those putting up eSports job posts on Reddit too, with the website paying special attention to unpaid/volunteer jobs.
Similarly, as someone looking for a job in the eSports industry, you cannot post on advertising yourself; i.e. you can apply to job postings but not speak of your own self as a prospective job-seeker.
NAC eSports USA
This is a governing body for collegiate eSports in USA, and allows people to post university eSports jobs on their site as you would expect.
If you are a university or other educational institution looking to post a job, you can send them an email at info@nacesports.org while if you are a student seeking an eSports job, you might be able to find one here.
The Esports Observer
EsportsObserver.com is one of the best news and reports website for eSports around the world and every now and then they have their own internal job requirements. Essentially, keep a tab on this site here and/or you could send across your resume or an interest in any kind of a role you could manage.
Mind you, sites like these get a truckload of emails from prospective applicants, so the chances of getting an immediate reply might not be high if there aren’t any immediate openings.
