FAQs DAM
Working with DAM means you’ll have a team of recruiting professionals advocating for your best interests and helping to put your best foot forward every step of the way. We work tirelessly to eliminate the guesswork and ambiguity that can often make a job search feel daunting or confusing.
– Access to opportunities not publicly posted or available to the open market
– Strategic insight into each opportunity and how each company aligns with your personal career journey
– Interview scheduling assistance & preparation
– Career consultation and salary negotiation
Yes! With DAM’s help, you’ll gain better access and insight into compelling career opportunities within the games industry. DAM supports candidates by filtering out the noise and eliminating the uncertainty that makes looking for a new job so frustrating and discouraging. Building a relationship with DAM now can provide you with a long-term, no cost competitive advantage to improve your professional and financial situation.
There is no cost to job seekers to use DAM’s services. The studios DAM supports are responsible for paying our fees; therefore, job seekers benefit from DAM’s insight and access to opportunities that will propel your games industry career free of charge.
Since February 2000! For over 2 decades, DAM has had the privilege of advancing the careers of games industry professionals and building the teams that have created some of the most beloved and innovative games of all time. We’ve been recruiting in games through 4 console generations, the transition from Feature Phones to Smartphones, the rise of Free to Play, the advent of AR/VR and now the burgeoning Web3 game development subvertical. And we can’t wait to see what the creative and brilliants minds in this industry ask us to start recruiting for next.
Scheduling a convenient time to speak with one of DAM’s partners is the first step which you can take right now from our Employers page. During the meeting, we’ll be looking to ensure that your recruiting needs and expectations are aligned with DAM’s capabilities. Feel free to download our Employer Guide eBook for more details on how DAM can take your team, and your game, to the next level.
There’s an easy onramp to work with DAM! DAM has built and maintained relationships within the games industry for over 20 years giving us unique insight and access to compelling career opportunities.
Three Step Plan to Get Started:
Send resume and schedule a call with a DAM Recruiter
Establish personal and professional job search parameters
Begin evaluating custom-filtered job opportunities
Feel free to download our Job Seeker eBook for more details on how DAM can take your career to the next level, both professionally and financially.
The vast majority of candidates that are best positioned to leverage DAM’s services & network typically bring 2-3 years of professional game industry experience to the table. With that in mind, aspiring game developers are encouraged to submit a resume.
Since 2000, DAM has served the recruiting needs of over 600+ clients from coast to coast in North America, ranging from well-established developers and publishers to stealth-mode studios and everything in between. Today, we’re currently supporting the recruiting efforts of over 75+ studios with 300+ job openings across the board. Check out our hottest positions at https://www.damagents.com/career-opportunities.
DAM’s recruiting sweet spot for contingency search is predominately focused on talent with 4+ years of game industry experience in Software Engineering, Art & Animation, Game/Level Design, Production, and Product Management. For executive search, DAM supports Director, VP and C- level roles. Candidates without professional experience in the aforementioned categories are welcome to submit a resume.
DAM supports the recruiting efforts for dozens of companies building games and related technology for Web3, blockchain, and NFT’s. Studios building Web3 games target candidates who share a strong belief in potential for crypto and NFT’s in games.
The game industry has embraced the work-from-home (WFH) model. While some studios have implemented a hybrid schedule, remote work remains the preferred model by a large majority of studios and talent in the games industry.
DAM typically conducts Executive and C- level searches on retainer. On a retained assignment, we provide dedicated recruiting support and a customized recruiting strategy to meet the objectives of the search. ~20% of DAM’s placements are retained.
There’s an easy onramp to work with DAM! DAM has built and maintained relationships within the games industry for over 20 years giving us unique insight and access to compelling career opportunities.
Three Step Plan to Get Started:
Send resume and schedule a call with a DAM Recruiter
Establish personal and professional job search parameters
Begin evaluating custom-filtered job opportunities
Feel free to download our Job Seeker eBook for more details on how DAM can take your career to the next level, both professionally and financially.
Scheduling a convenient time to speak with one of DAM’s partners is the first step which you can take right now from our Employers page. During the meeting, we’ll be looking to ensure that your recruiting needs and expectations are aligned with DAM’s capabilities. Feel free to download our Employer Guide eBook for more details on how DAM can take your team, and your game, to the next level.
Since February 2000! For over 2 decades, DAM has had the privilege of advancing the careers of games industry professionals and building the teams that have created some of the most beloved and innovative games of all time. We’ve been recruiting in games through 4 console generations, the transition from Feature Phones to Smartphones, the rise of Free to Play, the advent of AR/VR and now the burgeoning Web3 game development subvertical. And we can’t wait to see what the creative and brilliants minds in this industry ask us to start recruiting for next.
DAM’s recruiting efforts are predominately focused on North American talent. DAM can and has worked with development studios all over the world with two caveats typically: English is the default language used and you’re specifically targeting talent in the US and Canada.
Our fastest placement was within a week and our longest took 7 months, so this is a tough one to give a definitive answer to. For mid, senior, lead and director level talent, DAM will be able to start building a qualified candidate pipelines in engineering, art, animation, design, production and product management immediately.
DAM posts the vast majority of its active jobs right on the website on Job Openings page. There are dozens of opportunities across all of the key disciplines, across all primary verticals including PC/Console, Mobile, AR/VR and Web3. And, if you still can’t find exactly what you’re looking for, DAM encourages you to submit your resume anyway. New jobs are being opened up weekly and we’d love to learn more about your background for future consideration.
With the exception of DevOps, Server/Backend and Blockchain Engineers, DAM provides the most value to Job Seekers with at least 5 years of professional games industry experience and at least one released game title. DAM is not focused on entry-level or junior-level talent at this time, but if you think you’re on the cusp or pretty close, we encourage you to submit your resume and let someone from our Account Management team have a look.
Integrating virtual reality into the video game recruiting process is still in its infancy. However, the ability for the technology to help a candidate visualize what the day-to-day job experience would be like has the potential to become an integral part of the hiring process in the future and benefit recruiters, employers and job seekers. One of the issues currently keeping virtual reality from becoming more commonly used for recruiting is job candidates may not have access to a virtual reality headset. However, as technology becomes more affordable, VR will become more commonplace.
With advancements in artificial intelligence, combined with advancing virtual reality technology, it is not much of a stretch to anticipate that computers will perform initial job interviews in the not-too-distant future. The combination of VR and AI will also allow job seekers to simulate interviews, allowing them to practice and improve interview techniques for applying for video game jobs. This type of VR training will also prepare candidates for real-life in-person interviews so they won’t feel as intimidated when going into an office or participating in a video interview.
Employers can use virtual reality to improve the hiring process by allowing prospective candidates to better understand the work environment. VR offers several advantages over standard video interviews by providing the interviewer with a more comprehensive look into the candidate’s overall skill set. A VR recruiting interview will better help determine a candidate’s poise, presence, presentation and practical skills and give the employer a better picture of the job seeker’s fit for their company.
Augmented reality is just beginning to be used in VR recruiting, but it will become more mainstream once recruiters realize the value it offers for screening candidates. Many companies are turning to virtual reality solutions to find new talent. Recruiters can use VR to more easily assess a candidate’s skills while improving the experience for the candidate by allowing the job seeker a look a what the work environment and experience will be like. This can be an especially valuable tool for remote video game recruiting.
I just want to thank everyone at DAM. It’s been an amazing experience working with you, and I can’t tell you how excited I am about this. You guys were able to match me up so well with opportunities that I really felt like I had an embarrassment of riches – which was, frankly, a huge boost to me with as difficult as things have been for me recently. So thank you, thank you, thank you!
I’m only giving credit where credit is due. Sometimes I feel like there are more recruiting companies than there are companies to work for and most of them l don’t feel comfortable working with. Often it’s too obvious that they only care about moving you from A to B, no matter how bad the fit is. Working with DAM has always felt more personal and that makes all the difference. Nevertheless, I still wish the business model were more along the lines of talent agents.
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