How to Get a Job in the Gaming Industry

March 13th, 2007 | Rio Pesino

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Thousands of game artists, animators, programmers and others were at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, hoping to land their dream job of working for a video game company. Despite the fact that there are gaming gigs out there, actually landing the job is a difficult task. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Peter Grassi, senior recruiter for video game giant Electronic Arts, on how to make the task of getting a job in game development an easier one.

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