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.

This is the ninth year that Wargaming St. Petersburg has been conducting internships. The studio attracts non-core young specialists on a competitive basis and trains them. The goal of the program is to grow professionals independently. We talked about the specifics of the internship with Anna Posazhennikova, head of HR at the St. Petersburg branch of Wargaming.

What is the average salary of game developers in the market, how many of them are women, does higher education affect wages — these and many other questions are answered by a new salary study from Talents In Games and App2Top.ru .

Another wave of cuts in Activision Blizzard. On Tuesday, the company announced the dismissal of 50 employees involved in organizing esports tournaments and other offline events for Overwatch and Call of Duty. But journalist Jason Schreier talked to his own sources and said — in fact, there may be much more dismissed.

The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Unions (AFL-CIO) has approached Activision Blizzard with a proposal to increase inclusivity and interview at least one representative of racial minorities for each vacancy. The company called such an initiative unworkable.The essence of the AFL-CIO’s proposal is to include non-white citizens and women with relevant experience in the list of candidates for open vacancies.

In honor of the successful 2020, Riot Games decided to reward its employees. The company will give all official employees an Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch console to choose from. And she will also transfer them a one-time bonus of at least 10% of their salary.

Recruiters of gaming companies 4Friends, 101XP and Chillgaming — with the support of the Odnoklassniki social network – told about possible ways to get into gamedev.

For 10 years in the industry, Supergiant Games has become one of the most notable indie studios. Competent management helps the company to stay afloat and develop games like Bastion and Hades. Management does not force employees to overwork, but at the same time forces all team members to take regular vacations.Supergiant shared her principles in an interview with Kotaku, which was published last year.

Electronic Arts has released a report on the company’s internal processes. Among other things, EA talked about the publisher’s annual revenue, employee benefits, recruitment, and her understanding of the gaming audience.

At the end of the year we — App2Top.ru and Talents In Games — we conduct a large-scale salary study of the Russian-speaking gaming industry. We invite you to take part in it.

In 2020, the gaming company Playgendary implemented an original HR initiative. The company has divided the HR department into small HR departments. Everyone is self—sufficient and works exclusively with their own business unit. Playgendary shared her new experience in an interview with App2Top.ru .

Alibaba Group declined to name the positions because they negatively affect internal communication and initiative within the company. They were replaced with so-called “functions”.In Russia, Cainiao Network, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, joined this experiment.

You can find out what challenges a game producer should be ready for from the Pixonic test assignment published today. The document was published on Facebook Maxim Fomichev, who heads the War Robots project in the studio.

Last week, the award for gaming HR specialists “Game Dev HR Awards” was held. At it, the participants of the event — various gaming companies — told and defended the HR projects that they had implemented.

The online event “Gamedev HR Awards 2020” will take place tomorrow at 12.00. It is dedicated to achievements in the field of personnel management in the gaming industry. The participants of the event will present and defend their implemented HR projects.

The HR Awards Game Show will be held in September. This is a competition for HR projects in the gaming industry. Applications are being accepted for it now.

A table in which Blizzard employees shared their salaries was publicly available. Now the document contains information about almost 400 specialists.