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Happy Christmas & New Year from David Smith, Adrian Garrick, Cassandra Donnelly, Carrie Eckersley, Aurelie Busollo and Samantha Ambridge at Interactive Selection. The office is manned or should that be “peopled” on normal working days over Christmas.

Over 60000 have watched Interactive Selection’s Game Careers and Women in Games Jobs videos on YouTube. You can check the full 140 uploaded videos yourself at http://www.youtube.com/user/interactiveselection Over 20 more interviews were filmed at gamescom 2011 and have been launched on Game Careers and Women in Games Jobs in recent months. The first video on [...]

Greetings from Games Job Board – the job board serving the global games and interactive entertainment industry. See http://www.gamesjobboard.com Simply named, it delivers more games jobs in more locations to more job seekers in one of the most exciting industries on the planet. The Job Board is powered by the JobThread engine. JobThread, Inc is privately [...]

Mentoring prospective students and employees has become something of a free-for-all over recent years, what with publishers, developers and even governments using the latest online channels, among other things, to pick the fruit straight from the tree. Not that it bothers the learned industry recruiter, whose role can extend far beyond the knowledge and self-interest [...]

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Women in Games Jobs was incorporated as a “not for profit” or Community Interest Company under the UK’s Companies Act 2006 on 2 June 2011. Its objects are to recruit more women into the games industry by promoting role models and giving encouragement and information to those women seeking to work in games, and to [...]

Peter was a great candidate: Fine background, good skills, terrific references. So I decided to spin the dial and see if I could place him. After a little research, I found a company that seemed a perfect match for Peter’s talents. So, I placed a call to the vice president. The VP agreed that my [...]

Would you prefer to trust your career to a professional recruitment consultant that does not mind which industry he works in or a recruiter that considers himself only to be working in the games industry (and ahead of the recruitment industry)? There is a way to tell! Look up the recruiter on the social media site [...]

Interactive Selection is building a new community on Linked In for those working or wanting to work in the casual or social games sector. Casual Games Jobs is the professional group for all those with an interest in the fast growing casual and social games industry. This is a forum to exchange ideas, help and [...]

We received a letter today from a “leading provider of Government-funded Work Programme” who is “helping hundreds of small businesses like yours in London to find reliable, committed staff”. The letter even uses a quote from a UK government minister who says:

“Recruitment is a grind. Money spent on advertising. Too many CVs, or sometimes none at [...]