Making it simpler to seek out sport jobs within the financial downturn

With the 11,000 layoffs at Meta (Fb) and the three,500 at Twitter previously week, the downturn afflicting the tech business is getting critical. There are games-related layoffs on the large corporations as effectively, and it appears the sport business won’t be immune from these (hopefully momentary) setbacks.

However I’ve discovered some folks doing work that may assist these on the lookout for work within the gaming business. Amir Satvat, a principal publishing producer at Amazon Video games, has put collectively a often up to date checklist of job openings at sport corporations, in addition to different sources for job seekers.

His present checklist has greater than 13,000 job openings at 117 sport corporations, and also you’ll see the hyperlink to the spreadsheet beneath, in addition to his different sources. It’s a reasonably wonderful doc for present job seekers, with hyperlinks to the websites and the varieties of positions which might be open.

And, sadly, it’s very well timed. Layoffs.fyi has tracked 119,155 layoffs amongst 776 tech corporations in 2022.

Since September, we’ve seen layoffs at Snap (1,200), Credit score Suisse (5,000), SoftBank (500), Twilio (800), DocuSign (670), Microsoft, Seagate, Zillow (300), Twitter (3,500), Stripe (1,120), Lyft (650), Salesforce (beneath 1,000), and Redfin (862). And this week Meta (Fb) laid off 11,000 folks, or 13% of its workforce, as Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that the pandemic increase for social networking didn’t final.

This makes Satvat’s assist for job seekers welcome. He famous he acquired assist from recruiters at builders and publishers who him me know what so as to add to the job tracker. He’s principally monitoring builders or publishers with a minimum of 5 open jobs, and he’s updating the checklist often by way of LinkedIn.

Along with the checklist of openings, he additionally has a dropbox hyperlink with a resume template, cowl letter template, job tracker checklist, and self-questionnaire for job looking out.

He has hyperlinks to a information on utilizing these supplies collectively, one other information on job course of prep, an interview prep information, an interview prep information for Amazon specifically, an FAQ of frequent job questions, and a put up on how he stays present on video games.

Laura Thompson additionally has a hyperlink for job boards on LinkedIn.