Graduates - First Games Role Expectations
What to expect from your first role in the industryYou’ve always known that you wanted to work in the videogames industry. From the day you picked up that controller, mouse, or even joystick, you...
Read moreGraduates - Entering The Games Industry
Advice for getting into the games industry as a graduate Whether you’re a recent or soon-to-be graduate, the prospect of being left up unemployment creek without a paddle can be quite daunting. F...
Read more#26 - Game Dev Podcast - Games Graduates - Shomair Hanuk, Ewan Tennant, Andrew Patton
As we approach grad season, Aardvark Swift invited some of the post-graduates we've helped placed over the last couple of years to join us in conversation and catch up on what they've been up to s...
Read moreState of the Video Games Industry
The last few years have brought with them a huge boom in the video game industry, both in revenue and employment. In the UK’s video game industry alone, full-time employment grew 54%, from 47,73...
Read moreAdvice When Starting A New Job
Whether you’re starting your first junior role or a seasoned veteran of the game development industry, strolling into a new studio, putting your best foot forward when integrating with a new team ...
Read morePros & Cons of In-Studio, Hybrid & Remote Working in the Video Games Industry
For reasons we needn’t mention, “working from home”, “remote roles”, and “hybrid-working” are a group of buzzwords and concepts that have since pushed their way to the front of the queue of public...
Read moreDealing with Stress
There are three things that are certain in this world; death, taxes, and encountering work-related stress. Whether your job is a means to an end or your dream career, the stress of workloads, diff...
Read moreComing on Board as a Recruiter?
Emerging into the world of recruitment for the first time can feel like taking tentative steps into the lion’s den; seeming like a cutthroat industry where one false step could mean the untimely e...
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