Games/Multimedia/Graphics Recruitment Agencies

Chinwag http://jobs.chinwag.com digital marketing, online marketing, digital media, mobile,

interactive TV (iTV), web development, e-commerce, web-based CRM jobs.

www.creativepool.co.uk Recruitment Agency covering the creative industries including:

Advertising, Architecture, Graphic Design, Journalism and Writing, Media Careers, Multimedia and New Media and Publishing Aardvark Swift Interactive Consultants www.aswift.com Computer games jobs including graphic design Animated People www.animatedpeople.com Answers Recruitment www.answers-recruitment.com Change Ltd www.change-job.com Datascope Recruitment www.datascope.co.uk Their Gateway to Games provides links to most of the UK's games companies and contains a comprehensive list of useful games-related sites. DS Interactive www.dsinteractive.com Free Radical www.freeradicaldesign.co.uk/recruitment1.php computer games recruitment agency GamesJobs News www.gamesjobsnews.com Games Recruit www.gamesrecruit.co.uk work with companies such as EA, Microsoft, Codemasters, Ubisoft, Rockstar Games, Real Time Worlds Work in Games www.workingames.co.uk Games Industry Online Careers Magazine specifically designed to help those with little or no Games Industry experience. Guru www.gurucareers.com Kent based IT and New Media Recruitment Agency. Interact Jobs www.interactjobs.com Job Hopper www.thejobhopper.com jobs and freelance opportunities from the UK's Advertising, Broadcast, Creative, Design, Games, IT, Marketing & PR, Media and Web industries. OPM Response Ltd www.opmresponse.co.uk Pelican Consultants www.pelican-consultants.com Planet Recruit www.planetrecruit.com See Media and Arts and New Media sections totallydigital UK www.totallydigitaluk.com talent base of creative media professionals for both short-term projects and permanent, full or part-time, employment. Opportunities in leading design and marketing agencies and other sectors. Graphic design agencies Graphics Personnel www.graphicspersonnel.co.uk Adlink Freelancewww.adlinkfreelance.co.uk Design Task Force www.dtf.co.uk Also try a search for graphic design agencies on http://rec.bucksnet.co.uk/search Media recruitment agencies www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sitesmedia.htm#Recruitment

Animation
The animation industry ranges across many different segments of the audio visual industries including television, feature films, commercials, websites and computer games. There are about 2000 employees in UK. Often your first job is as a production assistant or runner. You need to network and send out speculative CVs and need a quality portfolio (see above for how to produce one) The Animex festival www.animex.net in Teesside each February has a student award for best animation, and BAF in Bradford in November. Regional Screen Agencies receive money from the Film Development Fund, so will offer different prizes at a regional level. Skillset www.skillset.org/animation/index_1.asp Excellent information on animation careers. Animation Industries Database www.aidb.com Animated Film Association asifa.net Animation World Network www.awn.com advertises a range of animation vacancies including storyboard artists/cartoon illustrators. Aardman www.aardman.com animation studios, site includes jobs and work experience details. Framestore CFC www.framestore-cfc.com/jobs/index.html largest visual effects and computer animation studio in Europe. Recruited at least 1 Kent graduate in 2005 as a runner.

 See the Prospects Occupational Profile for Animator www.prospects.ac.uk/links/Animator

Virtual Reality/3D modelling

Except for games design this is a relatively small industry - flight simulators, training,
medicine - training surgeons, walk throughs of potential buildings. Opportunities exist in software engineering, real-time hardware design, manufacture, sales of VR systems and modelling software. Companies using 3D modelling for serious purposes include Luminova www.luminova.net . BT Research do simulation work using avatars.

Web Design
PROFILE: Multimedia Designer/Web Designer INVOLVES: Designing & producing multimedia CDs & Internet Web Sites using text, graphics, sound, animation & video. Discussing requirements with clients. Prototyping - providing an initial quick draft of the solution for clients to see. Programming - often using a simple programming language called a scripting language. Liaising with graphic designers, musicians & video producers regarding content. Completing projects on time & budget. Keeping up to date with rapid developments in software & hardware. EMPLOYERS: training organisations, educational institutions, educational software producers, IT consultancies. Almost any company with a Web Site. Self-employment & freelancing possible. RELATED JOBS: applications programmer, systems analyst, graphic designer, publishing editor, advertising copywriter SATISFACTIONS: Creative Design. Seeing the results of your work on screen. Problem solving. Intellectual challenge NEGATIVES: Always needing to keep up to date with the latest technology - skills can rapidly become outdated. SKILLS: analysing & investigating, planning, creativity, artistic ability. ADVANCEMENT: To head of design team. Can move into the marketing & sales side. Can set up you own business. DEGREE: computer science or graphic design degree. POSTGRADUATE STUDY: A postgraduate computing conversion course or multimedia course would be the best route for graduates in subjects other than those above. TIPS: Get experience of computer graphics, sound, video & programming. Look at Web Sites & Multimedia CDs to see what makes them stand out. Learn the key skills: html, Flash, Photoshop etc. Design your own web page - make it look professional, then send out speculative CVs to multimedia employers with instructions of how to access your web pages. Web Designers with HTML and multimedia skills - networking, HTML, Flash, CGI, JavaScript and Java skills in demand. Further Information: UK Web Designers Association www.ukwda.org

New Media (Internet Consultancies)

This covers everything from WAP 'phones, to interactive television, to e-commerce. Employers include web design companies, software houses, dot.coms, and media companies.

Require Java programmers, project managers, project architects, graphic designers. Web designers need advanced HTML, Dreamweaver (web design), Shockwave, Illustrator (2D
images), Flash (web page animation), and JavaScript skills, plus Oracle, SQL Server and ASP skills for backend work. You also need good visual design skills and commercial awareness commercial web sites have to keep their customers and make money. Often involved in globalisation issues - cultural differences. Young, fast growing, informal companies. Jobs include web designers, web journalists and editors, and marketing and customer service staff. The IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) www.ipa.co.uk has produced a brochure outlining some of the top digital agencies that are on the look out for fresh, enthusiastic digital talent. Major companies include: Sapient www.sapient.com Avenue A Razorfish www.avenuearazorfish.com

Multimedia

There is a need for multimedia developers - Macromedia Director, network engineers, legal and rights experts, publishers, graphic artists, sound experts, animators, authors/content providers, project managers, picture researchers.

Look for knowledge of specific packages e.g. Macromedia Director. Preferably knowledge of
more than one package. Plenty of opportunities for "skills transfer"

Used in libraries, museums, security systems, cable TV, publishing houses, schools, retailers, films,
games, training, video conferencing.

Much freelance work/working from home. Need to be adaptable - able to cope with constant change. Able to learn new things quickly. Client
focused. Good team skills. Magazines Edge www.edge-online.co.uk has a jobs section. MCV Magazine www.mcvuk.com Develop Magazine www.developmag.com Revolution magazine has on-line jobs section www.revolutionmagazine.com Other multimedia links Adobe www.adobe.com Own Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat and other major multimedia products. Transition Tradition www.transitiontradition.com provides work experience and publication opportunities for students. Links to creative industry organisations - from independent publishers to arts funding bodies - to help students and graduates access fast changing, niche resources. Magazine and forums enable student to share experiences. See the Prospects Occupational Profiles for Multimedia Specialist www.prospects.ac.uk/links/MultimedSpec and Multimedia Programmer www.prospects.ac.uk/links/MultiProg

Educational Multimedia
World Open Learning Event www.wolce.co Takes place each November at the NEC. Most
exhibitors produce CD-ROM training materials. in January. Over 500 suppliers attend.

The BETT exhibition www.bettshow.com 'The UK's leading educational resource event'. Takes place Contact the Education Department of your local Council. They will advise schools on educational
software

Use www.yell.com and www.google.co.uk using search criteria such as Educational Software,
Multimedia, Educational Publishing.

Companies Dorling Kindersley http://uk.dk.com www.pearson.co.uk www.granada-learning.com www.sanako.com language teaching technologies www.becta.org.uk Trade magazines www.idonline.com Other resources www.nln.ac.uk Training Pages www.trainingpages.com directory of training courses on the web See also our teaching links

Organizations past Ulster graduates have gone into

2006/07 BBC Blue Cube Brett Martin Citibank CLD Technoligies Eyesparks ITS New Media Leslie Standley design Level 7 Manleys Mark Bond Consultants Parker Greed PriceWaterhouseCoopers Quinn Group Qwizdom Rehab Studios Synergy Learning Vision Solutions Whitenoise 2005/06 Mooney Media KTP Associates SDL Technology Intel Ireland Go Advertising ECOM Cyber.com Blue Cube Norbrook Laboratories Panpon IBM Ebay Teletech Northbrook Technologies Tutr General Omniplex KPMG Liles Marketing Media Soulutions Petition BBC Ulster Herald Wynams Others The Web Bureau Tascomi Ltd Brilliant Promotions

Lagan Technologies McCambridge Duffy & Sons New York Times Belfast Telegraph www.loadzajobs.co.uk/ Daily Telegraph http://jobs.telegraph.co.uk Financial Times http://news.ft.com/jobs The Guardian http://jobs.guardian.co.uk Independent http://jobs.independent.co.uk Irish Independent www.loadzajobs.ie Irish News www.irishnews.com/jobs Irish Times www.irishtimes.com Newsletter www.newsletter.co.uk www.jobstoday.co.uk The Times www.timesonline.co.uk/jobs