How can the UK games industry solve its skills shortage?
How can the UK games industry solve its skills shortage?
Earlier this year, a new report explored new facets of the UK's ongoing skills shortage, both at a mid to senior level …
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Offer decent pay.
21 0 ReplyI know some friends who are full stack, or backend developer, who would like to be game developer, if only the salary match his current position, or at least not lower than 10%>
17 0 Reply“Fuck you, pay me.”
17 0 ReplyLeaving the EU was a major problem. All game developers in other EU countries pull from all over the EU for their talent pool, but that's much harder for the UK now.
16 0 ReplyMoney.
16 0 ReplyPay more salary to attract talent from different sub-major of this software development
12 0 Replyit also seems like the games industry as it is now is pretty low pay and high demand working environment. so good luck with that
10 0 ReplyThe article has all the answers:
- pay them
- employ juniors and make it attractive for them to stay
- add salary information to job ads. not "competitive salary", which means less than nothing
7 0 ReplyIt isn't rocket science. You recruit from the market or train your own.
It's painful they do not get this.
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Sounds like skill issue.
8 2 ReplyMove out of UK.
5 0 ReplyI had a family friend who worked as a midlevel dev at Rockstar 10 years ago and he was being paid £27k while crunching 100 hour weeks
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