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  • Recruiterblog is relaxing on the Algarve for a week

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    REC Technology sponsor successful National Graduate Recuitment Awards 2009

    The National Graduate Recruitment Awards took place last night 21 May 2009 at the Grosvenor House, London. Alan Carr presided over the awards that seemed to go on and on and on with every possible sector of the job sector being represented. REC Technology sponsored the most popular IT & Telecoms graduate recruiter but it [...]

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    Interactive at Nordic Game in Malmo, Sweden 19-20 May.

    Adrian Garrick of Interactive Selection is speaking at the Career Expo on Student coaching – How to gain attention for the right reasons.
    Adrian has 5 years experience recruiting for the games industry. Interactive Selection work in collaboration with Interactive Nordic to source staff for the Nordic Region. In 2008, Interactive Selection made successful placements in 17 [...]

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    Interactive reveal rising average placement salaries in games industry

    Interactive Selection, the leading international games recruiter, has revealed that the salaries that it his been able to negotiate for its successful candidates over the last 5 years have increased each year, on average, by an inflation busting 6.5%. From an average placement salary of £29300 back in 2004/5, the candidates trusting Interactive to get [...]

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    2222 Linked In Connections connect you to 7,020,700 professionals

    David Smith, MD of Interactive Selection has reached the 2222 Linked In connection milestone. There is no one better connected within the “computer games” sector on Linked In. If you would like to use his connections to further your career, or to collaborate otherwise with David, you can see his profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwilliamsmith

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    Is the reputation of your recruiter important to you?

    So Nintendo leads Microsoft and Sony in the  “Most Reputable” List. Nintendo has been named as the sixth most reputable company in the world in a new annual survey, ahead of Microsoft at number 30 and Sony at number 126. Research firm the Reputation Institute has rated over 1000 companies from 20 industry categories, although [...]

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    Beware game recruiters advertising multiple oversea roles without a relationship with the developer.

    Recruiterblog has seen more and more jobs advertised on a speculative basis to attract candidates in to registering with the agency, when the agency does not have agreed terms with the end client and has no active permission to work on these advertised roles. This used to be a problem many years ago when small [...]

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    Games programmer needed for 6 month home based contract in UK

    Are you an experienced game programmer who would relish the opportunty to work from home? 

    You can do so if you have:

    •     Expert C++ and Java development skills

    •     Experience in writing interactive graphical applications in OpenGL or Direct3D

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    Recruiters to help combat swine flu pandemic?

    With cases of swine flu on the increase, recruiters could be pivotal in providing companies with highly skilled staff in certain areas. Just as long as the recruiters supplying temporary or contract replacements do not succumb to the swine virus first.  Recruiterblog has just ordered his face masks. Have a good bank holiday.

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