Alyona Zhuravleva, who previously held the post of HRD in the studio, shared her experience of adapting novice managers in Glera Games with App2Top.

In a recent report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Unity announced plans to conduct a record round of layoffs. She decided to lay off a quarter of the staff, or about 1,800 people.

The recruitment agency WN Talents summed up the voting results for the Game Dev HR Awards 2023. The winners in terms of the number of votes cast were the Playkot game studio and the Ravenage publishing house.

The Swedish Embracer Group holding continues to close some subsidiaries and reduce staff in others. The list of studios that suffered from the company’s restructuring included Free Radical Design and Fishlabs.

Unity has announced new large-scale cuts. This time the reason was the termination of cooperation with Weta FX, a special effects studio directed by Peter Jackson. A total of 256 people or 3.8% of the total number of Unity employees will remain unemployed.

Recruitment agency WN Talents In Games has launched a public vote for achievements in the field of gaming HR. It takes place as part of the annual Game Dev HR Awards.

Recruiting agency Talents In Games summed up the results of the open voting for the award “Game Dev HR Awards 2022“. The game studios Playkot and MYTONA turned out to be the winners by a large margin in terms of votes cast.

There is one more educational game dev initiative. Oleg Pridyuk, a former evangelist of Unity and Defold engines, together with Leroy Batyan from Devrel Events opened his online school. Non-core specialists will be retrained into game developers.

Three years ago, the Penza company BIT.GAMES (part of MY.GAMES) launched the IGROHAB project for those who want to get into game dev. With his help, she finds promising newcomers and trains them. We talked with Yulia Rogozhkina, curator of educational projects and HR brand manager at BIT.GAMES, about how IGROHAB developed and its features.

The search for employees in indie studios is different from large companies. Valya Severin, co-founder of the Russian helpnode team, told about the subtleties of this process. Inside — personal experience and some basic tips for beginners.Sanek

Last week, the hashtag #GameDevPaidMe started gaining popularity on Twitter again. Under it, gaming specialists from all over the world share their salaries. We chose the most interesting of the tweets.

Jen Oneal, who held the post of Blizzard co-CEO until November, said that she was offered an equal salary with another co-CEO, Mike Ybarra, only after she made decisions to leave the company. Before that, she had been refused a salary increase several times.

For the second year in a row App2Top.ru and Talents In Games conducts a survey on the level of salaries in the Russian-speaking game dev and areas close to it. As a result, a large-scale study of the market situation will be published.

Last week, during WN Moscow`21, the third “HR Awards Game Show” was held. This is an award for gaming HR specialists and teams from Russia and Eastern Europe, organized by Talents In Games. It awards the best HR projects. This time, the initiatives of Playrix, BIT.GAMES and MYTONA were noted.

Ivan Agarkov, Production Security Team Lead at Wargaming, wrote a big thread about salaries in the IT sphere. He spoke about the basic principles of the formation of the labor market, the importance of soft skills, the difference in salaries for women and men, and negotiations for an increase. We chose the main thing from Agarkov’s thread.

Which Russian-speaking gaming companies have the best HR teams will become known this September as a result of the Game Dev HR Awards, which is held by the job search service and the Talents In Games recruiting agency.

Last Tuesday, May 25, the online Talents In Games: HR Conference 2021 was held on the WN Hub platform. This is the only Russian-language conference for gaming HR specialists and recruiters.

Jason Schreier spoke about the situation with layoffs in the gaming industry. In his opinion, today specialists do not feel protected and can be out of work at any time — despite record revenues and sales. The journalist illustrated the problem with several vivid examples, and at the same time suggested ways to solve it.At the beginning of his article for Bloomberg, Schreyer recalls two important events of the first half of the year: the…

The online session Talents in Games: HR Conference 2021 will be held on May 25. This is the only conference focused exclusively on HR specialists of the gaming industry.