From Around the Web: 20 Awesome Photos of entry level recruiter jobs
Entry level recruiting positions are ones that don’t require the applicant to know something. The applicant just needs to be able to do their job. A good entry-level recruiter will have a good understanding of the job, but will be flexible and willing to learn.
Entry-level recruiter jobs in the gaming space have been fairly scarce these days, because you either need to be good at what you do, or be a jackass and take a job that doesnt pay enough to be a full time gig. With game developers, the need to be a jackass is far more prevalent than most people realize.
Game developers are notoriously lazy, and are often times better at thinking in terms of “fun” and “fun for me” than they are in terms of “money” and “money for me”. They like to spend all day in their cubicle or basement doing their thing, and they love to talk about creating new technology.
Like most game developers, a game designer loves to talk about creating new technology, and that’s usually what leads to them putting their time into creating new technology and then selling it to companies like EA, Activision, or Nintendo. Game designers are often referred to as “game jockeys” because they have a very similar job to a game jockey.
But game designers are not game jockeys, nor are they game designers. Game designers are coders. They code the engine that runs the game, and a game designer is an artist, or a designer who has the ability to create art. Game designers aren’t necessarily coders, but they can work on code and design.
If you’ve ever tried to teach somebody to code, you know that it’s a job that can be very rewarding. You can get paid a lot of money and make a lot of money, but there’s no guarantee that you’re going to make a decent living at it. Thats why game designers need to go to school and go through a training process.
A game designer is like a writer who has a blog. There are lots of jobs that don’t have a blog, but game designers write blogs. They can create lots of stuff, but not be paid a salary for it.
You can also get paid lots of money if you write blogs. You can make a good living at it, but theres no guarantee that there will be a job out there for you.
For the most part, game designers are the people who write blogs. I think in all seriousness, it is a good idea to go to school to get a solid foundation in computer science and game making. You can get hired as a game designer if you have the chops to start, and you can make a decent living doing what you do. The problem is that game designers are a highly specialized, very niche, and very specialized field.
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