Susanne Christian is a careers writer in the UK currently undertaking a book entitled “Working In Computers and IT’. It is part of a series from VT Lifeskills, aimed at young people aged 13-19. It will be mainly used in schools and Connexions centres. She has approached Games Job Blog for help. The book is [...]
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Interactive Selection, the leading games recruiter, has just undertaken a diversity audit to study the gender of the job seekers that have registered with the company over the years. It has never directly asked applicants for this data which would be discriminatory but has made general estimates looking at applicants christian names. In all only about 1 [...] Companies seeking to hire non EEC nationals will be required to advertise some jobs in Jobcentre Plus for four weeks following changes to the Resident Labour Market Test announced yesterday. From 14 December anyone wanting to employ a foreign national from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) under Tier 2 of the points-based immigration system [...] You saw it here first! In the front page article, “A fistful of dollars” printed on 2 November 2009, Charles Arthur examined who’s making money from the web, and who’s in the last chance saloon contrasting, UK Recorded Music, Newspapers, Television and Video Games (inc hardware.) Video games have grown from £1.22 billion in 2000 [...] GCAP 09 will be held at the Crown Promenade Hotel in Melbourne from 6-8 December 2009. GCAP is proudly hosted by the Game Developer’s Association of Australia (GDAA) with support from the Victorian Government. GCAP 09 will deliver thought provoking, creative and innovative topics covering programming, art, design and more from leaders in game development. [...] I don’t think so! I would not. A new ‘single fee’ recruitment firm promises this ‘benefit’. The “traditional” recruitment model of only paying a fee when the recruiter is successful is apparently flawed. Recruiterblog says the traditional model works because it based on results. Chancers asking for upfront fees regardless of results are asking for [...] Louise Murray, formerly Copley, Head of Fable Franchise at Microsoft Studio, Lionhead recently spoke to Antonia Cullum of Women in Games (WIG) Jobs on what it is like for her working in the games industry as a woman and how great it was to win a BAFTA for her studio’s work on Fable II. More interviews [...] Stewart Mitchell commented in PC Pro magazine 4 November 2009 that jobs in the IT sector are growing for the first time in nearly two years, according to figures from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and consultant company KPMG. In the October edition of its monthly Report on Jobs, the confederation said the overall jobs [...] In a report by Game Investor Consulting published by NESTA in August 2009, the brain drain to other territories was cited as the second most important key trend by 9 out of 14 of the UK’s largest developers, behind government subsidies being offered by overseas territories. 7 ex 14 studios cite the continuing brain drain [...] |
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