Career Articles

Career | By Hitoshi Jones @ Friday, 23rd May 2008 @ 10:01 AM

The video game industry is loaded with different game jobs and careers, opportunities to become involved in one of the most interesting, diverse fields around. For those that want to be at the top of the mountain no matter what they do, overseeing the production of vast projects and making the decisions that will bring on the future of the video game industry, the role of game producer might be right for you. The game producer is an integral part of any studio's production. T... more...

Career | By Bruce Lipski @ Friday, 23rd May 2008 @ 7:26 AM

Years ago, it was common for people to have a one or maybe two jobs throughout their working career. Many people in fact stayed with one company their whole life. For instance, both my father and my wife's father stayed at the same company for more than 30 years. The company they worked for was their family and they were part of the company family. The same thing can be said with baseball. Before free agency, players were much more apt to stay with one team for their whole career. ... more...

Career | By Stephen Campbell @ Friday, 23rd May 2008 @ 6:52 AM

When you attend college, you further escalate your career planning. College provides chances to do something better with your life. College is where you get all the learnings that you need to make something out of yourself and do something beneficial for your life. You will find that college is an important investment for the fact that you can do lots of things afterwards. You will find that even though it is a lot of work, you are on your way to somewhere better. You may not think that you have... more...

Career | By Stephen Campbell @ Friday, 23rd May 2008 @ 6:43 AM

When we are to deal with career planning, you tend to think the craziest things ( sometimes, we think even those impossible to achieve) when you are young and not yet focused on life. When you are a kid you desire to be the President, the Pope, a NASA scientist; kids tend to shoot for the stars, but, when you grow up, you need to aim realistically, not lower but those things that are realistic. You will want to make sure that your plans are something that you can enjoy and something that you ca... more...

Career | By Jeff Casmer @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 5:13 PM

If you are in the market for a work at home job but want something more than just reading and doing surveys then consider becoming a professional. Professional work at home jobs can be found all over the internet. Besides offering more stability than your average, any one can do it, work at home job they tend pay more as well. A professional work at home can be anything from medical transcription to online tutoring. You work just about the same hours as you would an offline job but you h... more...

Career | By Jeff Casmer @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 5:06 PM

A few years ago if you had said that the economy was in decline I would have panicked like everyone else but because I work at home I'm not crying in a corner wondering what I'm going to do. Working at home offers many benefits. Of course you save money on gas since you don't have to get up for the morning commute; I also like to think I'm doing my share for the environment by working from home. You save on lunch and clothes and there are tax benefits if you work at h... more...

Career | By Hitoshi Jones @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 12:44 PM

If you're an avid video gamer and while sitting at home playing your favorite game, you think to yourself, "I could do this better", video game design might be the perfect job for you someday. But there are some key skills you'll need to have before you can enter the field and truly make an impact on the video game market. Here's a description of the most important ones. Programming Everything you see in a video game is boiled down to 0s and 1s, the basics of... more...

Career | By Hitoshi Jones @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 12:27 PM

The last 20 years or so have been huge for home video gaming. You can do almost anything in a video game these days, from racing in a Grand Prix to cooking breakfast. And because you've grown up playing them, and video game design is such a hot market right now, you might be looking into how you can get into the field and help to create some of the most entertaining video games around. Lucky for you, there are a number of schools that offer courses in video game design. And the numbe... more...

Career | By Hitoshi Jones @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 12:27 PM

When you decide that you want to be a game designer, you need to learn the skills needed in order to do the job. This means going to a school with the required curriculum. There are a surprising amount of colleges and universities now serving this field. These are three of the best. The ITT Technical institute has 85 locations in 30 states across the US, and offers a bachelor's degree in Digital Entertainment and Game Design. The program offers a strong foundation in game technology,... more...

Career | By Hitoshi Jones @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 12:18 PM

It's getting to that time in your life when you have to start considering exactly what you'll be doing with your career and video games look like a solid field. You're good with numbers, you know a little programming code, or you're a fairly decent artist. Any of these are good reasons to consider the industry, so where do you go for video game design career information? You'll need to be proactive, getting out there and putting forth the effort to make the most o... more...

Career | By Hitoshi Jones @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 12:07 PM

I wake up, go to work and play. Seems an odd comment from an adult, but sometimes you can arrange it. I'm a video game tester. Video game testing jobs aren't just about mouse and controller skills. The main characteristic needed is precision. But that's just the beginning. You see, games aren't tested until there is enough complete to actually test. That's when the work really begins. I play the game and keep careful notes on everything I do. This is because some ... more...

Career | By Hitoshi Jones @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 12:03 PM

Many gamers look at the games they play and dream of creating their own. Perhaps with a pet idea for a game that hasn't been done yet. Maybe you think a particular game is brilliant, but the plot is so thin, surely a better writer could have pulled so much more out of the experience. If you find yourself thinking like this, maybe a video game design job is for you. Let's take a look at what positions are available. Lead designers write and program and organize. It is the respons... more...

Career | By Donald Mitchell @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 7:25 AM

An artist's perspective is a key that unlocks the door into a new world of understanding for viewers. Yet where does such a novel perspective come from? While natural objects often inform artists, few powerful artistic perspectives emerge solely from viewing nature. In fact, until the 19th century most serious artists viewed painting or sculpturing from nature with skepticism. Spending time with artists has helped many to formulate new perspectives. For the wealthy, it has a... more...

Career | By Donald Mitchell @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 6:16 AM

In many cultures, rules, roles, and choices are very circumscribed. I remember speaking once with an Italian friend about gondoliers in Venice, Italy. Gondoliers usually inherit their tiny mooring places from their fathers, who had done the same from their fathers. Most gondoliers live lives circumscribed by their mooring place, thinking about little beyond the small territory within which they typically pole their tourist passengers. Even when a culture seems overly bound by rules, role... more...

Career | By chris boaz @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 2:47 AM

Learning how to access your abilities may not be something that is easy for you to do. You may find it difficult to get what you want with what you know. There are a few things that you will need to do in order to get what you want and have the career that makes you happy and gives you the satisfaction that you are looking for. The first thing that you need to do is to do your job well. You must take your responsibility to heart and use it to your best interest. If you cannot perform ... more...

Career | By Donald Mitchell @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 1:00 AM

If you ask most young people about what they are learning, they will make an unpleasant face. Even those who enjoy learning will often pretend that they don't. Why? The youthful ideal is to float through life without a care in the world . . . and if you can't do that, to at least pretend to be carefree. Under the surface of that real or pretended insouciance, young people are usually learning a lot about how to succeed and to demonstrate mastery of what "adults" do by f... more...

Career | By Stephanie Foster @ Thursday, 22nd May 2008 @ 12:54 AM

Out of the many work at home options out there, medical transcription is pretty popular. It's a great option for people who want to be home with their kids. The pay is good, as are the opportunities. But it's certainly not for everyone. You really do need to be dedicated to it. You need to enjoy learning the terminology, typing for long hours and puzzling out what sometimes incoherent doctors are saying. It's really not an easy job. A medical transcriptionist must be... more...

Career | By Catherine Harvey @ Wednesday, 21st May 2008 @ 8:25 PM

Pop down your local job centre and trawl through the adverts for cleaners, hod carriers and care assistants and you will soon expect to see the same old jobs thrown up time and time again. Having done this myself it kind of becomes quite repetitive. The same old companies, the same old jobs, the same old pay, advertised week after week. All that has changed recently. Job centres around the country have received criticism for advertising jobs in the sex industry. This is unfair criticism. ... more...

Career | By Christine Harrell @ Wednesday, 21st May 2008 @ 12:47 PM

What would have been impossible -- and even laughable just a few decades ago have now rocked the foundation of higher education altogether. Our lives have changed. We no longer follow the predetermined path of college at 18, graduation at 22, marriage and 2.5 kids, retirement at 65 with a gold watch and a pension. As our lives have become busier and less structured, the world has become more flexible to accommodate us. We have many more options than our parents did. Relatively, fewer stud... more...

Career | By Anna Stenning @ Wednesday, 21st May 2008 @ 7:19 AM

These days there is a wide variety and selection of employment positions, all with promising career progressions ahead of them. Each of these positions has become difficult to apply for and tend to be very selective on their candidate choices. Some of the more competitive career paths lie within the technology recruitment sector, can be a very difficult job to obtain, and may require plenty of unpaid work experience. Those looking to get into technology recruitment will need to begin b... more...