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How Amir Satvat finds jobs for thousands of game industry people | The DeanBeat


Amir Satvat is the undisputed game job champion. During gaming's worst job downturn over the past 2.5 years, Satvat has helped 3,500 find work.

Amir Satvat: Where all of that started is I wanted to do a proof of concept, having spent a lot of time working in data science, to see if I could do a bottoms-up mapping of what roles looked like. Now, to directly answer your question, I feel like people put a huge amount of worry into thinking about their CV, about their cover letter, about how many roles they’re applying to, about so many things. It’s possible that the resting size of the industry may end up being a bit smaller than it is now, but the bigger challenge–if I was asked about the big thing you want to tackle first–a lot of people have been talking about this at GDC.

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