Our study found that online gaming behaviour varied between different job categories, allowing the participants to gain different soft skills. There were apparent gender differences too: females preferred playing single-player games, whereas males played shooting games. Finally, engineers were associated with strategy games that required problem-solving and spatial skills. Managers showed an interest in action roleplay games where organisational and planning skills can be improved. We found that IT professionals and engineers played puzzle-platform games, allowing for enhanced spatial skills. We used logistic regression on the participants’ top ten games, allowing us to investigate any possible associations between different professions, gender, and the games played.
We employed a secondary data analysis approach by using an existing data set (O’Neill et al., 2016), looking into the actual gaming behaviour of Steam users and additional administrative data (i.e., job details and gender) provided by Game Academy Limited. Our study was based on the 800 most played games only and included participants where we had access to gender and job details. The study comprised 16,033 participants playing a different number of games on Steam. Hence, we investigated the actual gaming behaviour of individuals from an extensive secondary data set to further support gamers’ future career planning and professional training. However, very little is known about online gaming behaviour based on the actual games played and how career interests are reflected in what people play. Online gaming motivations are differently associated with career interests.
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