JTL Services, Inc. began a focus on Game Development Jobs roughly two years ago and has made tremendous strides in connecting top quality game development candidates to open game development job opportunities around the US.
Bryant Madore has spearheaded the focus and has placed several jobs in North Carolina, and Florida and continues to successfully work on other areas around the country as well.
Bryant was savvy and focused enough of a job recruiter to realize he needed to continue to spread his recruiting wings and enter into new and growing markets. Game development was a very wise choice, and for many good reasons. Just go into any department store, i.e., Target, Walmart, Best Buy and the like and you will see that the game market is very much alive and very much in high growth mode. With the Wii, Play Station, XBox and many others, there is only rapid growth in the foreseeable future.
However, game development doesn't only suggest creating games for these larger entities (Wii, Play Station, XBox, etc.). There also is another segment called Serious Games that has also opened up game development opportunities in industries like defense, education, scientific exploration, health care, emergency management, city planning, engineering, religion, and politics. .
So what is game development and what jobs coincide with game development?
Game development jobs include: art, programming, design, writing, production, audio, quality assurance, and business opportunities. The most well known of these are artist or animator, programmer or engineer (sometimes also called coder), and game designer.
With all the bad news about the economy and the job market, and believe me, there is plenty of genuine bad news, we must also realize that there are still hot spots that can still provide lucrative job opportunities.
If you are a Game Development Studio looking for only the best talent in the industry or if you are in the Game Development space seeking employment, please feel free to contact Bryant Madore at JTL Services, Inc. He can help!
If you haven't already seen the following job tool, we also recommend checking that out as well. JTL can help provide this tool to you for absolutely no cost or strings attached. How can you get it free? Go to http://www.jtlservices.com and right on the home page is a free coupon code for a free account.
As always, best of luck in your job search and placement.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Does Size Really Matter?
This seems to be a question asked quite a bit as of late when job seekers are trying to connect with a recruiter to help get them placed with a job.
There are good and and not so good "recruiters" at any size firm I am sure. From what I am told and gather, the larger firms tend to be able to float not so good recruiters in their mix of many recruiters at their large firms. What I mean is that in a firm with many recruiters a not so good one can easily be found in many cases. It is the classic scenario of having a sales team of (for example), 50 sales people with ten of them being over achievers and 10 of them being under achievers, and the remaining somewhere in between. In many cases at the very large firms, the not so good ones may go unnoticed for a while. Now don't get me wrong, I am not saying that is the general rule, but you can logically see how that could and does happen.
With the smaller agencies, if the recruiter is not good, or even great, then they generally wont be with the firm very long. If you can find a recruiting agency with recruiters that have been with the firm for many years, that could/should be a great signal to an all around great agency - with a good client list and great team of recruiters.
All this said, I still believe that job placement comes down to the recruiters and their relationships with clients. If there is no solid relationship between recruiters and hiring managers, then you can see how the likelihood of the recruiter placing a candidate would be low. Conversely, you can also agree that a recruiter with a solid relationship with a hiring manager may have better luck placing a candidate.
Sure there are quality candidates (on paper) all over the place. But a great recruiter places great candidates and clients recognize that and trust is gained leading to a more productive relationship. There is nothing worse than a recruiter placing what appears to be a great candidate at a company and three months later that candidate is gone. That is a bad situation. Hiring managers can loose faith in a recruiter's ability to find top candidates and lose the relationship when this happens.
So.... size doesn't matter at all. There are many more important variables to consider when selecting a recruiter to help get you placed.
There are good and and not so good "recruiters" at any size firm I am sure. From what I am told and gather, the larger firms tend to be able to float not so good recruiters in their mix of many recruiters at their large firms. What I mean is that in a firm with many recruiters a not so good one can easily be found in many cases. It is the classic scenario of having a sales team of (for example), 50 sales people with ten of them being over achievers and 10 of them being under achievers, and the remaining somewhere in between. In many cases at the very large firms, the not so good ones may go unnoticed for a while. Now don't get me wrong, I am not saying that is the general rule, but you can logically see how that could and does happen.
With the smaller agencies, if the recruiter is not good, or even great, then they generally wont be with the firm very long. If you can find a recruiting agency with recruiters that have been with the firm for many years, that could/should be a great signal to an all around great agency - with a good client list and great team of recruiters.
All this said, I still believe that job placement comes down to the recruiters and their relationships with clients. If there is no solid relationship between recruiters and hiring managers, then you can see how the likelihood of the recruiter placing a candidate would be low. Conversely, you can also agree that a recruiter with a solid relationship with a hiring manager may have better luck placing a candidate.
Sure there are quality candidates (on paper) all over the place. But a great recruiter places great candidates and clients recognize that and trust is gained leading to a more productive relationship. There is nothing worse than a recruiter placing what appears to be a great candidate at a company and three months later that candidate is gone. That is a bad situation. Hiring managers can loose faith in a recruiter's ability to find top candidates and lose the relationship when this happens.
So.... size doesn't matter at all. There are many more important variables to consider when selecting a recruiter to help get you placed.
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