Source for Skills Developed Outside Their Day Job — Lessons From the Army’s Esports Team

Recruiters look for job experience and then sort by skill level. But an alternative is to look for “skills experience,” which better reveals hidden candidates. “Skills experience” is when an individual has spent a considerable amount of time using a particular skill, but when most of the time that they spent exercising that skill occurred outside of their day job. Joystick skills, for example, can be classified as a “skills experience” category because most people build their joystick skills outside of any official work title, while they are playing video games.