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Game Career Seminar: Paint Me a Picture, Sell Me a Story
David Ventura (Creative Director/CEO, Ichigoichie)
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Track: Game Career Development
Format: Lecture
Vault Recording: TBD
Audience Level: All
The road to employment can be long and grueling. In an age of AI filters, silent rejections, and the echo chamber of your mind, how can we grow and keep it all together? The keys to finding a great job are the same as the keys to retaining one: clear, honest, and adaptive communication. In this talk, a 15-year manager with experience being hired and starting over in three continents across the globe shares a plan on how to improve personal marketability and create more value for the applicant and the employer. Through four phases of a career hunting cycle, the speaker shares techniques to develop the professional muscles needed to be a larger part of the hiring conversation.
This talk provides concrete tactics and behaviors to practice for finding alternate avenues of recruiting, telling a compelling narrative, negotiating incremental advances, and how to weather the emotional storm of disappointment.
Takeaway
Attendees receive a motivating rally from a career coach and a roadmap for building strong communication skills to get hired and promoted. The plan presented involves a set of practices to amplify one's own potential as a professional and how to survive the emotionally taxing road to success.
Intended Audience
Developers looking to land a job and build a solid foundation for their next employment. The advice is applicable for anyone who is looking to strengthen their career options through improved communication and networking skills, or has faced frustration in a lack of results with traditional job application methods.
