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Recruitment agencies, don’t you just love ‘em?! OK maybe not and this one has its faults too. However they did put me in the job I have today so I thought I would give them a mention.

Interactive Selection (www.interactiveselection.com – not co.uk as in category heading) is a recruitment agency for the interactive games industry. Covering sales and marketing jobs, management, telesales – all sorts to do with ...
...on their web site, you have a company history about them being set up by David Smith in 1996. They now have offices around the UK – I was helped by Rachael Gadsden, who is lovely.

They cover the UK but also work for clients in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America.

If you register online I found it is quite long winded, as although they ask you to send your CV, there is also an application form to fill in. ... more

Recruitment agencies, don’t you just love ‘em?! OK maybe not and this one has its faults too. However they did put me in the job I have today so I thought I would give them a mention.

Interactive Selection (www.interactiveselection.com – not co.uk as in category heading) is a recruitment agency for the interactive games industry. Covering sales and marketing jobs, management, telesales – all sorts to do with the games industry really.

If you look on their web site, you have a company history about them being set up by David Smith in 1996. They now have offices around the UK – I was helped by Rachael Gadsden, who is lovely.

They cover the UK but also work for clients in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America.

If you register online I found it is quite long winded, as although they ask you to send your CV, there is also an application form to fill in. So I found it quite time consuming.

They have hints and tips on their web site…saying how you should register with a good agency (how surprising), interview tips, job-hunting tips etc.

They also have a ‘latest news’ section on the site, with stuff about this industry and recruitment in the games industry.

Now as they found me a job at MCV magazine selling adverts, and as they are one of my clients and have taken a number of ad’s already, I found the bit of their web site that said “We do not advertise” and how they rely on word-of-mouth very interesting! So don’t believe all you read on there!

My story of being registered with Interactive Selection goes like this;

I registered with them August 2000 when I was unhappy at work and saw a job on their site, which looked interesting. I heard nothing from them at all. Forgot all about registering and found a new role at the company where I worked.

However, June/July 2001 as some of you will know, my position at work was very unstable due to the company losing a big customer. I was eventually made redundant at the end of July.

Early July 2001 I came home one day to a message on my answer phone from Rachael Gadsden of I.S. asking if I was still looking for a job. I wondered how she had got my number – and on looking back through old emails I found when I had registered with them!!

They set up the interview for me, gave me no directions to get there (I found the place on Streetmap.co.uk), gave me no job spec to plan any interview techniques with. I got to the place and the MD said – well, the job has already been taken but your CV looked interesting so we thought we would see you anyway!

They offered me a job here (not the one I went for but one I wanted anyway) I phoned Rachael that night and said I was taking the weekend to think about it – by the time I phoned my new boss on Monday he already knew I was accepting the post as Rachael had told him!!! I hadn’t definitely said yes to her!!

As it happens, I have ended up at MVC Magazine and quite happy thank you very much – but lets be honest, it was a good job I wasn’t desperate for a new job seeing as it took them nearly a year to get in touch, they were totally unplanned to send me anywhere and then jumped the gun and accepted for me!!

 

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